3 <poetry>But better than both <indent>is the one who has never been born, </indent> who has not seen the evil <indent>that is done under the sun. </indent></poetry> 4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. <poetry>

But better than both <indent>is the one who has never been born,<cr>1</cr> </indent> who has not seen the evil <indent>that is done under the sun.<cr>2</cr> </indent>

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.<cr>1</cr> <pb/><poetry>

Ecclesiastes 4:4

 3 But better than both is the one who has never been born,   who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.   4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.   

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