1. So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter.
2. Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3. And I thought that better is he than both of them who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil works that are done under the sun.
4. Again, I considered all travail and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5. The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
6. Better is a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7. Then I returned, and I saw another vanity under the sun.