1 Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun:And look! The tears of the oppressed,But they have no comforter—On the side of their oppressors there is power,But they have no comforter.
2 Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead,More than the living who are still alive.
3 Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.