"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."
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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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.
Yes, better is he than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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.
And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.