Ecclesiastes 4:3
“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.”
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Related Verses
“I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.”
“Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.”
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.”
“This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:”