Комментарий к Кохелет 4:2

Who already died. Before the evil inclination overpowered them to push them back from the Holy One, Blessed Is He,⁴Alternatively, I am able to determine the praise of those who died [ושבח אני את המתים], by observing the conduct and type of life style of their children who are alive [מן החיים]. (Yalkot Eliezer) like the early Patriarchs,⁵Rashi answers the apparent contradiction between this verse which praises the dead and below [9:4]. Koheles states “for a live dog is better than a dead lion.” (Sifsei Chachomim) for Moshe was answered only through them [i.e., their merit].⁶See Maseches Shabbos 30a. Moshe said many prayers and God did not answer, but when he mentioned the merit of the Patriarchs in his prayers, he was immediately answered. (Sifsei Chachomim) And like my father Dovid, for I was not answered with twenty-four praises⁷See Maseches Shabbos 30a. The Gemara there relates that the gates in the Bais Hamikdosh clung to each other when Shlomo attempted to place the Holy Ark into the Kodesh Hakadoshim. He said twenty-four expressions of entreaty and was not answered until he mentioned the kind deeds of Dovid. (Sifsei Chachomim) until I said, “Remember the kind deeds of Your servant Dovid.”⁸II Divrei Hayomim 6:42.

“I praise the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are still alive” (Ecclesiastes 4:2).
“I praise the dead who are already dead” – these are the generation of Enosh and the generation of the Flood; “more than the living who are still alive” – these are the Sodomites and the Egyptians.⁶The generations of Enosh and the Flood were destroyed and will never come back to life. The Sodomites and Egyptians will come back to life in the World to Come, and will be punished and abhorred by all (Etz Yosef).