Changes

|1

|1

|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.  

|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.  

|

|So I returned and considered all of the oppression that takes place on earth. Those who were oppressed shed tears but were not comforted. Their oppressors had power, and they had no comforters.

|

|

|-

|-

|2

|2

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

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

|

|At this I praised the dead for being dead, more than the living for being alive.

|

|

|-

|-

|3

|3

|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.  

|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.  

|

|You are better off having not been born and seeing no evil than either the living or the dead.

|

|

|-

|-

|4

|4

|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.  

|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.  

|

|I considered the trying ordeals again, and every correct action, and how men envy their neighbors for them. This too is vanity and vexation of the spirit.

|

|

|-

|-

|5

|5

|The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.  

|The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.  

|

|The fool does no work and lives be eating what he already has.

|

|

|-

|-

|6

|6

|Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.  

|Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.  

|

|Better is a little with quietness than a lot with trying ordeals and vexation.

|

|

|-

|-

|7

|7

|Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.  

|Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.  

|

|When I returned I saw vanity.

|

|

|-

|-

|-

|-

|}

|}

==Chapter 5==

==Chapter 5==