4 I looked again, and I saw all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Just look at the tears of the oppressed, who have no one to comfort them! Their violent oppressors had the upper hand, and there was no one to comfort them.

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.