Bible verse
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 4.
1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
2 So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
3 But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
4 I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
7 Again, I saw futility under the sun.
KJV
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.
ASV
yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
ERV
yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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