Ecclesiastes 4:2 meaning and explanation
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a wisdom figure surveying life "under the sun," his phrase for existence viewed apart from God's final justice. In verse 1 he has just described oppression so crushing that its victims have no comforter while power sits with their oppressors.
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