# Ecclesiastes · 4

> https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4

## Verses

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-738a397ca42f89be3041)

**Latin**

Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias
quæ sub sole geruntur,
et lacrimas innocentium,
et neminem consolatorem,
nec posse resistere eorum violentiæ,
cunctorum auxilio destitutos,

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-a431dc21500084281aad)

**Latin**

et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-51d615e65f2b8ce7b8f8)

**Latin**

et feliciorem utroque judicavi
qui necdum natus est,
nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-5d4da59ebdbb384b8c9f)

**Latin**

Rursum contemplatus sum omnes labores hominum,
et industrias animadverti patere invidiæ proximi ;
et in hoc ergo vanitas et cura superflua est.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-c9a99567837d7d8a5257)

**Latin**

Stultus complicat manus suas,
et comedit carnes suas, dicens :

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-db8941e9bfe92ba71d70)

**Latin**

Melior est pugillus cum requie,
quam plena utraque manus cum labore et afflictione animi.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-d18c4bffa042bddf03b6)

**Latin**

Considerans, reperi et aliam vanitatem sub sole.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-280b739fac2695c16a42)

**Latin**

Unus est, et secundum non habet,
non filium, non fratrem,
et tamen laborare non cessat,
nec satiantur oculi ejus divitiis ;
nec recogitat, dicens :
Cui laboro, et fraudo animam meam bonis ?
In hoc quoque vanitas est et afflictio pessima.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-3dd53cfa29a281509a99)

**Latin**

Melius est ergo duos esse simul quam unum ;
habent enim emolumentum societatis suæ.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-c297fce5deb3b72375f2)

**Latin**

Si unus ceciderit, ab altero fulcietur.
Væ soli, quia cum ceciderit, non habet sublevantem se.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-44b28169590526f68717)

**Latin**

Et si dormierint duo, fovebuntur mutuo ;
unus quomodo calefiet ?

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-40022955d80a097e447c)

**Latin**

Et si quispiam prævaluerit contra unum,
duo resistunt ei ;
funiculus triplex difficile rumpitur.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-9cddad593f73adeac016)

**Latin**

Melior est puer pauper et sapiens,
rege sene et stulto,
qui nescit prævidere in posterum.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-77f0bcf628a6b2c6b32a)

**Latin**

Quod de carcere catenisque interdum quis egrediatur ad regnum ;
et alius, natus in regno, inopia consumatur.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-e93f4ea4f81375c9a221)

**Latin**

Vidi cunctos viventes qui ambulant sub sole
cum adolescente secundo, qui consurget pro eo.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-ad0dbb7caa8136e57bff)

**Latin**

Infinitus numerus est populi
omnium qui fuerunt ante eum,
et qui postea futuri sunt non lætabuntur in eo ;
sed et hoc vanitas et afflictio spiritus.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.

[↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/ecl/4#text-a344e3eeceed7e93233c)

**Latin**

Custodi pedem tuum ingrediens domum Dei,
et appropinqua ut audias.
Multo enim melior est obedientia quam stultorum victimæ,
qui nesciunt quid faciunt mali.

**English**

This passage has not yet been translated.