BCC ¹ Je me suis tourné et j'ai vu toutes les oppressions qui se commettent sous le soleil : et voici que les opprimés sont dans les larmes, et personne ne les console ; Ils sont en bute à la violence de leurs oppresseurs, et personne ne les console !

KJV 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.

VULC ¹ [Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias
quæ sub sole geruntur,
et lacrimas innocentium,
et neminem consolatorem,
nec posse resistere eorum violentiæ,
cunctorum auxilio destitutos,

BCC ² Et j'ai proclamé les morts qui sont déjà morts plus heureux que les vivants qui sont encore vivants, et plus heureux que les uns et les autres,

KJV ² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

VULC ² et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;

BCC ³ celui qui n'est pas encore arrivé à l'existence, qui n'a pas vu les mauvaises actions qui se commettent sous le soleil.

KJV 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.

VULC ³ et feliciorem utroque judicavi
qui necdum natus est,
nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.