1. And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have no comforter.
2. And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
3. And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.