Ecclesiastes 9:4

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

Darby Translation

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 among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.

5For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither 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 ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?

Lamentations 3:21This I recall to heart, therefore have I 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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