Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. I looked again and saw people being ill-treated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who ill-treated them were powerful.

2. I said to myself, “The dead are better off than the living.

3. But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth.”

Ecclesiastes 4