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Then I looked again at all the acts of ^(C1)oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had ^(C2)no one to comfort them; and power was on the side of their oppressors, but they had no one to comfort them.

So ^(C1)I congratulated the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are still living.

But ^(C1)better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.