Ec 4:1-3 (King James)

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

Ec 4:1-3 (Nouvelle Edition de Genève)

L'oppression et la solitude

¹ J'ai considéré ensuite toutes les oppressions qui se commettent sous le soleil; et voici, les opprimés sont dans les larmes, et personne ne les console! Ils sont en butte à la violence de leurs oppresseurs, et personne ne les console! ² Et j'ai trouvé les morts qui sont déjà morts plus heureux que les vivants qui sont encore vivants, ³ et plus heureux que les uns et les autres celui qui n'a point encore existé et qui n'a pas vu les mauvaises actions qui se commettent sous le soleil.

Ec 4:1-3 (Vulgate)

   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,
   ² et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;
   ³ et feliciorem utroque judicavi
qui necdum natus est,
nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.