Ecclesiastes by Solomon — Read

I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. {I saw the tears of the oppressed-- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful-- no one can comfort them}![note: Literally "And look! The tears of the oppressed, and there is no comforting for them, and from the hand of oppressors [of] them [was] power, and there is no comforting for them"]

So I deemed the dead who have already died more [fortunate] than the living who are still alive.