Ecclesiastes 4:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And 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.

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
  • Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. 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.)
  • Job 3:22 : 22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me. 19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
  • Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest, 7 Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah. 8 I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind. 9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city. 10 By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst, 11 Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
  • 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 6:3-5 : 3 If 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.' 4 For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered, 5 Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.
  • Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them `are' adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones. 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
  • Jer 20:17-18 : 17 Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. 18 Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 4:2
    83%

    2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

  • Eccl 3:22
    79%

    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?

  • Eccl 4:4
    78%

    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 6:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    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 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Eccl 3:12
    77%

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

  • Eccl 6:8-12
    5 verses
    77%

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

    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

    10What `is' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

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

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:3
    77%

    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.'

  • Eccl 1:3
    76%

    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    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 2:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

  • Eccl 4:6-9
    4 verses
    75%

    6`Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.'

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

    8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

    9The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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!

  • Eccl 2:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    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!

    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

  • Eccl 2:16-19
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 1:14
    75%

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

  • Eccl 7:2
    75%

    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.

  • Eccl 3:15
    74%

    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 9:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Eccl 8:17
    74%

    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

    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 6:1
    74%

    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Eccl 11:8
    74%

    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 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

    10I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Eccl 8:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Eccl 4:13
    73%

    13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

  • Eccl 9:13
    73%

    13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.