Ecclesiastes 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:17
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Job 3:11-26
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? …
Ecclesiastes 9:4-6
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. …

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Solomon had a large soul (1 Kgs. 4:29) and it appeared by this, among other things, that he had a very tender concern for the miserable part of mankind and took cognizance of the afflictions of the afflicted. He had taken the oppressors to task (Eccl. 3:16, 17) and put them in mind of the judgment to come, to be a curb to their insolence; now here he observes the oppressed. This he did, no doubt,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. A profane sentiment if severed from its connection; but just in its bearing on Solomon’s scope. If religion were not taken into account (Ec 3:17, 19), to die as soon as possible would be desirable, so as not to suffer or witness “oppressions”; and still more so, not to be born at all (Ec 7:1). Job (Job 3:12; 21:7), David (Psa 73:3, &c.), Jeremiah (Jr 12:1), Habakkuk (Ha 1:13), all passed throug…