Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

American Standard Version

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.

Darby Translation

and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Young's Literal Translation

And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

Bible in Basic English

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

In context

2So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

4I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Read Ecclesiastes 4