Ecclesiastes 4:3

Ecclesiastes chapter 4 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

King James Version · 1611

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

American Standard Version · 1901

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

v.2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

v.3This passage

v.4Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
Jeremiah 20:17
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Psalms 55:6
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Matthew 24:19
But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Job 10:18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.