Ecclesiastes 4:2
◄  Ecclesiastes 4:2  ►
Why I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion...

Job 3:17-21 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So I commended the dead who had already died as being happier than the living who are still alive.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

American King James Version
Why I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

American Standard Version
Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Darby Bible Translation
Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;

English Revised Version
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive;

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

World English Bible
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Young's Literal Translation
And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

Job 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?


Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Jeremiah 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive. —HCSB

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living. —NASB

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. —KJV


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Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 Verse 2

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