NASB
"So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living."
— Ecclesiastes 4:2, NASB
“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”
“Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive; ”
“Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.”
“So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.”
“And I praised the dead rather than the living:”
“So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.”
“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”
Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.
So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.
But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.
I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.