Which hath not yet been; who was never born. How this is true, see on the foregoing verse. Not seen, i.e. not felt; for as seeing good is put for enjoying it, Ecclesiastes 2:24, so seeing evil is put for suffering it, as hath been more than once observed.
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Ecclesiastes 4:3
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.