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

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.

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are still living.

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

But 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.

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.