Ecclesiastes 4:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 9:4-6 : 4 But `to' him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it `is' better than to the dead lion. 5 For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten. 6 Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.
  • Job 3:11-26 : 11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! 12 Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck? 13 For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me, 14 With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves. 15 Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver. 16 (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.) 17 There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. 18 Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, 19 Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord. 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. 22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. 23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up? 24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters `are' my roarings. 25 For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. 26 I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 4:3-4
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    3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:3-6
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    77%

    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

    4But `to' him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it `is' better than to the dead lion.

    5For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

    6Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    75%

    15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

    16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Ps 115:17
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    17The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

  • Eccl 2:15-18
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    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

    16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 4:1
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    1And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    72%

    21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

    22Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

  • Eccl 3:22
    72%

    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Isa 38:18-19
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    71%

    18For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

    19The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

  • Eccl 4:7
    71%

    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    71%

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

    12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

  • Ps 49:18
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    18For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

  • Eccl 6:5-6
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    71%

    5Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

    6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

  • Eccl 2:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

  • Eccl 3:15
    71%

    15What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which `is' to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

  • Eccl 11:8
    71%

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 8:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

  • Ps 6:5
    70%

    5For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 6:8
    70%

    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 1:9-11
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    70%

    9What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

    10There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

    11There is not a remembrance of former `generations'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

  • Eccl 2:20
    70%

    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    70%

    6for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

  • Eccl 1:2
    70%

    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 6:3
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    3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

  • Lam 3:6
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    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • Ps 146:2
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    2I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.