Verse 2

Wherfore I iudged those that are dead, to be more happy then those that be alyue?

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 2:17 : 17 Thus began I to be weery of my life, insomuch that I coulde away with nothyng that is done vnder the sunne: for all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
• Eccl 9:4-6 : 4 And why? as long as a man liueth, he hath an hope: for a quicke dogge say they is better then a dead lion. 5 For they that be liuing knowe that they shall dye: but they that be dead knowe nothing, neither deserue they any more, for their memoriall is forgotten. 6 Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is nowe perished, neither haue they any more part in the worlde in all that is done vnder the sunne.
• Job 3:11-26 : 11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? 12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes? 13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest, 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places, 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer: 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light? 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest: 18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour: 19 There are small and great, and the seruaunt is free from his maister. 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures: 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue, 23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God? 24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water: 25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me, 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.