Ecclesiastes 4:3

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Summary

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.

Better

Who

General references

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Bible References

Better

Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him.

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.

Because he did not kill me in [the] womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and [her] womb [would be] pregnant forever.

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and [the] breasts that did not nurse!'

Who

I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.

So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind!

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

{Oh that I had} in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them [are] adulterers, a band of traitors.

General references

{Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?