Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

因此，我赞叹那早已死的死人，胜过那还活着的活人。

因此，我赞叹那已死的死人，胜过那还活着的活人。

因此，我赞叹那已死的死人，胜过那还活着的活人。

我为那已死的人庆幸，因为他们比活着的人幸福。

我赞叹那已死的人，胜过那还活着的人。

所以我感叹，那些早已死去的死人，胜过那些还活着的活人；

因此，我讚歎那早已死的死人，勝過那還活着的活人。

因此，我讚歎那已死的死人，勝過那還活着的活人。

因此，我讚歎那已死的死人，勝過那還活着的活人。

我為那已死的人慶幸，因為他們比活著的人幸福。

我讚歎那已死的人，勝過那還活著的人。

故此我祝賀那已死了的死人，勝過那還活着的活人；

所以我感嘆，那些早已死去的死人，勝過那些還活著的活人；

故我稱已死者、甚於尚生之人、

我竊思死者較生者為尤幸。

我讚嘆已死者較尚生者為幸、

And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

Then I announced that those who have already died are happier than those who are still alive.

And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.

So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.

So I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are still living.

Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, More than the living who are still alive.

So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.