Ecclesiastes 4:2 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:2

2: So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

  1. So now I hate life because everything done here under the sun is so irrational. Everything is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Job 3:11

  1. "Why didn't I die at birth as I came from the womb?
  2. Why did my mother let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
  3. For if I had died at birth, I would be at peace now, asleep and at rest.
  4. I would rest with the world's kings and prime ministers, famous for their great construction projects.
  5. I would rest with wealthy princes whose palaces were filled with gold and silver.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

  1. There is hope only for the living. For as they say, "It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion!"
  2. The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered.
  3. Whatever they did in their lifetime--loving, hating, envying--is all long gone. They no longer have a part in anything here on earth.
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