1. Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!
2. And those now dead, I declared more fortunate in death than are the living to be still alive.
3. And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.