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## Ecclesiastes 4:2-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/1) So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of *such as were* oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors *there was* power; but they had no comforter.*
 
 [2 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/2) Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/3) Yea, better *is he* than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/4) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/5) The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/4/6) Better *is* an handful *with* quietness, than both the hands full *with* travail and vexation of spirit.
 
[Ecclesiastes 3](/kjv/ecclesiastes/3) [Ecclesiastes 5](/kjv/ecclesiastes/5)

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