Ecclesiastes 9:4

For whoever is yet united with all the living hath still hope; for a living dog fareth better than a dead lion.

Leeser Tanakh

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 things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.

5For the living know that they will die; but the dead know not the least; nor have they longer any reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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Cross References

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, when he hath gained unjust wealth, when God casteth forth his soul?

Lamentations 3:21[Yet] this answer will I give to my heart: therefore will I wait [in confidence].

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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