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Ecclesiastes 4:1-2
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Is It Better to Be Dead?

4 Again I saw all the people who were treated badly here on earth.

I saw their tears.
    I saw that they had no one to comfort them.
Cruel people had all the power.
    There was no one to comfort the people they hurt.
2 I decided that the dead
    are better off than the living.

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Ecclesiastes 4:1-2
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Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression(A) that was taking place under the sun:

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
    and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
    and they have no comforter.(B)
2 And I declared that the dead,(C)
    who had already died,
are happier than the living,
    who are still alive.(D)

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