 | Albert I. Baumgarten, Jan Assmann, Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa, Guy G. Stroumsa - 1998 - 468 páginas
...of the Greeks and of Ecclesiastes: "It is better for men never to have been born.17 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better then they both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | Eric S. Christianson - 1998 - 314 páginas
...presents himself to us as an observer of extreme situations. A good example of this is 4. 1-3: Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed; and there was no comforter for them. Yet from the hand of their oppressors was power... | |
 | 1999 - 68 páginas
...in his own works, for that is his portion, for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 páginas
...a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. Ecclesiastes ch. 3, v. 19 9 Wherefore 1 praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Ix-clcsiastes ch. 4, v. 2 10 A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Kcclcsiastes ch. 4, v.... | |
 | Eric Sams - 2000 - 396 páginas
...music transcends them by being true to life. NOTES, 1. The Authorised Version runs: 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3.... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 páginas
...works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under...are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 páginas
...the advantage over the living, and that he that has never been at all has the advantage over both. "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been." This weariness of life was the natural... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 páginas
...sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. . . . Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. ... A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's... | |
 | Louis A. DeCaro - 2002 - 349 páginas
...—John Brown And They Had No Comforter" John Brown and the "Everlasting Negro" Question So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. —Ecclesiastes 4:1* In February 1859, the year of the Harper's Ferry raid, Jeremiah R. Brown, half-brother... | |
 | Eliezer Berkovits - 2002 - 436 páginas
...of a midrashic interpretation of a verse in Ecclesiastes. This is the biblical text: So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but... | |
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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. 
