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Ich wandte mich und sahe an, alle, die Unrecht leiden unter der Sonne; Und siehe, da waren Tränen derer, Die Unrecht litten und hatten keinen Tröster; Und die ihnen Unrecht täten, waren zu mächtig, Dass sie keinen Tröster haben konnten. Da lobte ich die Toten, Die schon gestorben waren Mehr als die Lebendigen, Die noch das Leben hatten; Und der noch nicht ist, ist besser, als alle beide, Und des Bösen nicht inne wird, Das unter der Sonne geschieht.
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Confirmed with The Holy Bible: German Luther Translation, Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, The Unbound Bible project, 2002. Note: the spelling has been modernized.
Text Authorship:
- by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), no title, op. 121 no. 2 (1896), published 1896 [ baritone and piano ], from Vier ernste Gesänge, no. 2, Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Susana Martin Dudoignon) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 79
I returned, and saw all all the injustice under the sun; and I saw the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter, and those oppressors had so much power; they could have no comfort. So I praised the dead who had already died more than [I praised] the living who are still alive. And he who is neither [of these], is better than both [of these], who has not seen the evil that, under the sun, is done.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3 [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from Ecclesiastes, 4:1-3
This text was added to the website: 2023-08-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 82