Ecclesiastes 4:2
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
In other translations
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Hebrew words
וְשַׁבֵּחַveshabeachand I congratulatedH7623אֲנִי'aniIH589אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853הַמֵּתִיםhametimthe deadH4191שֶׁכְּבָרshekevarwho alreadyH3528מֵתוּmetuthey had diedH4191מִן־min-more thanH4480הַחַיִּיםhachaiyimthe livingH2416אֲשֶׁר'asherwhoH834הֵמָּהhemahtheyH1992חַיִּיםchaiyim[were] aliveH2416עֲדֶנָה׃'adenahstill <towards>H5728
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Related verses
- Job 3:11-2611 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;11 Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb? 12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed? 13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4-64 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.4 There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
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