New Revised Standard Version
but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Contemporary English Version
But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth."

New American Bible
And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

better

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. . . .

Job 3:10-16 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Jeremiah 20:17,18 Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. . . .

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Luke 23:29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

who

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Psalm 55:6-11 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? . . .

Jeremiah 9:2,3 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. . . .