Ecclesiastes 4:2-4

²Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

³yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

⁴Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.