Ecclesiastes 9:4

There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

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Cross References

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Lamentations 3:21Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will 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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