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Ecclesiastes 4:3

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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 4:1

    So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

  2. Ecclesiastes 4:2

    Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

  3. Ecclesiastes 4:4

    Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  4. Ecclesiastes 4:5

    The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

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