1And I turned about, and beheld all the oppressed that are made so under the sun: and, behold, there are the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors they suffer violence; and they have no comforter.
2Thereupon praised I the dead that are already dead, more than the living who are still alive;
3And as happier than both of them, him who hath not yet come into being, who hath not seen the evil-doing that is done under the sun.—