Ecclesiastes 4:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² Therefore, I praised the dead who are already dead above the living who are still alive.

³ And I count him who has not even been born as better than them both. For he has not seen the evil works which are wrought under the Sun.

⁴ Also I beheld all work, and all perfection of work, and that this is the envy of a man against his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping at the wind.