1. 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.
2. Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3. Yea, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4. Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.