“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 4 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.