Ecclesiastes 4:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.
  • Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly? 12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse? 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest, 14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves; 15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.
  • Job 3:22 : 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
  • Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest. 7 Indeed, I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he. 4 For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.
  • Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 20:17-18 : 17 Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me. 18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 4:2
    83%

    2Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

  • Eccl 3:22
    79%

    22Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 4:4
    78%

    4Again, I considered all the toil and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:5-6
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    78%

    5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

    6Yes, even if he lives a thousand years twice over, yet has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    77%

    15I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.

    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 3:12
    77%

    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • Eccl 6:8-12
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    8For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    10That which has been is already named, and it is known that it is man: nor can he contend with one mightier than he.

    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:3
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    3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.

  • Eccl 1:3
    76%

    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:24-25
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    24There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.

    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Eccl 2:21-22
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    76%

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

  • Eccl 4:6-9
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    6Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full, with toil and vexation of spirit.

    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

    8There is one alone, without a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labor, nor is his eye satisfied with riches, nor does he ask, 'For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good?' This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous toil.

    9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
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    75%

    9The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    10Is there anything of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in ancient times, which were before us.

  • Eccl 2:11-13
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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

  • Eccl 2:16-19
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    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yes, I hated all my labor that I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

    19And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 1:14
    75%

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 7:2
    75%

    2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will take it to heart.

  • Eccl 3:15
    74%

    15That which is, has already been; and that which is to be, has already been; and God requires an account of the past.

  • Eccl 9:3-4
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    74%

    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

    4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    74%

    9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man rules over another to his own harm.

    10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 6:1
    74%

    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Eccl 11:8
    74%

    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Eccl 3:9-10
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    74%

    9What profit does he have who works in that which he labors?

    10I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

    15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Eccl 8:14-15
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    73%

    14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

    15So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:13
    73%

    13Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will not be admonished anymore.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me: