^{1 Ref} 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 Ref} Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

^{3 Ref} 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.

^{4 Ref} Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.