Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?(Ecclesiastes 3:22)
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.(Ecclesiastes 4:1)
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.(Ecclesiastes 4:2)
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.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 4:4)
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.(Ecclesiastes 4:5)
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 4:6)
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Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Cross Reference
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. (Jeremiah 20:17)
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 1:14)
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. (Job 3:10)
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! (Matthew 24:19)
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! (Job 10:18)
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. (Ecclesiastes 6:3)
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 2:17)
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (Job 3:22)
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. (Psalm 55:6)
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. (Luke 23:29)
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. (Jeremiah 9:2)