Ecclesiastes 4:3

Modern

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Traditional

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.

Literal

…and better than both is the one who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun!

Latin

…et feliciorem utroque judicavi qui necdum natus est, nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.

Hebrew

English

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

This section discusses various topics, such as justice, humans and animals, oppression, moderation, companionship, politics, and worship.

Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
Matthew 24:19
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Jeremiah 20:17–18
…because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Jeremiah 9:2–3
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Job 3:10–16
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Job 10:18–19
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Psalm 55:6–11
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
Job 3:22
…who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.