Ecclesiastes 4:3
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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Gill's Exposition
Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been,.... That is, an unborn person; who is preferred both to the dead that have seen oppression, and to the living that are under it; see Job 3:10.…
Solomon had a large soul (Kg1 4:29) and it appeared by this, among other things, that he had a very tender concern for the miserable part of mankind and took cognizance of the afflictions of the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Yea, better is he than both they As the utterance of a personal feeling of despair we have a parallel in the words of Job (Ecc 3:11-16). As expressing a more generalised view of life we have multiform…
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