Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias

Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias 
quae sub sole geruntur, 
et lacrimas innocentium, 
et neminem consolatorem, 
nec posse resistere eorum violentiae, 
cunctorum auxilio destitutos,
et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;
et feliciorem utroque judicavi 
qui necdum natus est, 
nec vidit mala quae sub sole fiunt.

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3

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by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) , no title, op. 121 no. 2 (1896), published 1896, from Vier ernste Gesänge (Four serious songs), no. 2.

ENG English (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
FRE French (Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Date added to the website: 2007-09-05.

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So I returned, and considered

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

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3

a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3 GER FRE

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Date added to the website: 2003-10-12.