Ecclesiastes 4:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² So I congratulate the dead, who already have died, more than the living, who are still alive. ³ But better than either of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil done under the sun.

⁴ I also saw that all hard work and all accomplishment are the result of a person’s envy of his neighbor. This too is vapor and chasing the wind.