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Ecc 4:2 — Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		Ecc 2:17; Ecc 9:4-6; Job 3:17-21

Correlating Passages

Related Verses

	Ecc 2:17	Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
	Ecc 9:4	For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
	Ecc 9:5	For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
	Ecc 9:6	Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.
	Job 3:17	There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
	Job 3:18	[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
	Job 3:19	The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
	Job 3:20	Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
	Job 3:21	Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 4:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/4/2.html>.

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