Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

Modern English Version

Look! The tears of the oppressed,
    and no one was there to comfort them.
And there was force from the hand of the oppressors,
    and no one was there to comfort them.
² And I thought that fortunate were the dead
    who had already died,
even more than the living
    who were still alive.
³ And still better than both
    is he who has not been,
who has not seen the evil deeds
    that are done under the sun.