Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Cross References
Job 3:11
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one's day of death is better than his day of birth.

Jeremiah 22:10
Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.


Treasury of Scripture
Why I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.


Ecclesiastes 2:17
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 9:4-6
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion…



Job 3:17-21
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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