Cross references

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 BSB

Ecclesiastes 4:2 has 3 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 3:11–26 (5 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:17 (4 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 4 other books, from Job 3 to Revelation 14.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 4:2 point to?

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  1. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed? …

  2. So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  3. There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. …

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