Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

International Children’s Bible

I saw their tears.
    I saw that they had no one to comfort them.
Cruel people had all the power.
    There was no one to comfort the people they hurt.
² I decided that the dead
    are better off than the living.
³ But those who have never been born
    are better off still.
They have not seen the evil
    that is done here on earth.