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And those now dead, I declared more fortunate in death than are the living to be still alive.(A) And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.

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And I declared that the dead,(A)
    who had already died,
are happier than the living,
    who are still alive.(B)
But better than both
    is the one who has never been born,(C)
who has not seen the evil
    that is done under the sun.(D)

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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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.

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11 Why did I not die at birth,(A)
    come forth from the womb and expire?

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11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
    and die as I came from the womb?(A)

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11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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16 Or why was I not buried away like a stillborn child,
    like babies that have never seen the light?

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16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(A)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?(B)

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16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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