Ecclesiastes 4:2-5

²Therefore I praised the dead, who have been long ago dead, more than the living, who are yet alive.

³Yea, better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work which is done under the sun.

⁴And I saw all labor, and all success in work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.

⁵The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh.