Ecclesiastes
King James Version (KJV)


“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
4:3 Better is he - Who was never born. Not seen - Not felt: for as seeing good is put for enjoying it, so seeing evil is put for suffering it.
Yea better is he then both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seene the euill worke that is done vnder the Sunne.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
But better {off} than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
yea, 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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
- Basic English Bible
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Darby Bible
And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- English Revised Version
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- World English Bible