Ecclesiastes 9:4

Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

In Context

3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

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Cross References

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

Lamentations 3:21This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:2-4

Mysteries in Providence. 1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 3 This… Read the whole commentary →

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