Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 9:4-6
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But [to] him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it [is] better than to the dead lion.
5
For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.
6
Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.
Job 3:17-21
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There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
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Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
19
Small and great [are] there the same. And a servant [is] free from his lord.
20
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
21
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.