I praised the dead. — Job 3:11; Exodus 32:32; 1 Kings 19:4; Jeremiah 20:14; Jonah 4:3. The word which is translated “yet” in this verse belongs to later Hebrew, and does not occur elsewhere in the Old Testament,
Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 4:2
Ecclesiastes 4:2
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.