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Ecclesiastes 4

Eccl. 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yeah, better
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
is he than both
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
they, which hath not yet
`aden (Hebrew #5728)
from 5704 and 2004; till now
KJV usage: yet.
Pronounce: ad-en'
Origin: or radennah {ad-en'-naw}
been, who hath not seen
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
that is done
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
under the sun
shemesh (Hebrew #8121)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement
KJV usage: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Pronounce: sheh'-mesh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
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Eccl. 6:3• 3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. (Eccl. 6:3)
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Job 3:11• 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? (Job 3:11)
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Eccl. 6:3‑5• 3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
 4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
 5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. (Eccl. 6:3‑5)
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Job 3:10‑16• 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. (Job 3:10‑16)
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Job 10:18‑19• 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. (Job 10:18‑19)
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Jer. 20:17‑18• 17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:17‑18)
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Matt. 24:19• 19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! (Matt. 24:19)
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Luke 23:29• 29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. (Luke 23:29)
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Eccl. 1:14• 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Eccl. 1:14)
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Eccl. 2:17• 17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Eccl. 2:17)
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Psa. 55:6‑11• 6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
 7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
 8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
 9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
 10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
 11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. (Psa. 55:6‑11)
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Jer. 9:2‑3• 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
 3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. (Jer. 9:2‑3)
• {Contrast Phil. 1} that other man was also in the same scene exactly, who said, too, that it was certainly “far better” to be out of it; but― precious contrast! that was because of the loveliness and sweet attraction of One known outside of it; whilst the very needs of others in the scene―those “tears,” in a way, of which the wise man speaks, and which he knew no way of stopping―alone kept him in it, and made him consent to stay. (“Ecclesiastes 4” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and more fortunateh than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "better."