Ecclesiastes 4:3
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And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

better

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. . . .

Job 3:10-16 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Jeremiah 20:17,18 Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. . . .

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Luke 23:29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

who

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Psalm 55:6-11 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? . . .

Jeremiah 9:2,3 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. . . .

Context
The Evil of Oppression
2And I praised the dead rather than the living: 3And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.4Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.…
Cross References
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Ecclesiastes 2:17
And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Lexicon
But better
וְטוֹב֙ (wə·ṭō·wḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

than both
מִשְּׁנֵיהֶ֔ם (miš·šə·nê·hem)
Preposition-m | Number - mdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

is he who
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

has not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

yet
עֲדֶ֖ן (‘ă·ḏen)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 5728: Hitherto, still

existed,
הָיָ֑ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

who
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

has not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

seen
רָאָה֙ (rā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

the evil
הָרָ֔ע (hā·rā‘)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

is done
נַעֲשָׂ֖ה (na·‘ă·śāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

under
תַּ֥חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

the sun.
הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃ (haš·šā·meš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement


Additional Translations
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.Yes, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Better also than both these is he who has not yet been, who has not seen all the evil work that is done under the sun.

and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Yes, better is he than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

And better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.
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