Ecclesiastes 4:3
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.
KJV
et feliciorem utroque judicavi qui necdum natus est, nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.
Vulgate
καὶ ἀγαθὸς ὑπὲρ τοὺς δύο τούτους ὅστις οὔπω ἐγένετο, ὃς οὐκ εἶδεν σὺν πᾶν τὸ ποίημα τὸ πονηρὸν τὸ πεποιημένον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον.
LXX
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.
ASV
וְ/טוֹב֙ מִ/שְּׁנֵי/הֶ֔ם אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר עֲדֶ֖ן לֹ֣א הָיָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא רָאָה֙ אֶת הַ/מַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה הָ/רָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשָׂ֖ה תַּ֥חַת הַ/שָּֽׁמֶשׁ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
- Eccl 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
- Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Matt 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!