Ecclesiastes 9:4

But [to] him who is joined to all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it [is] better than to the dead lion.

Literal Standard 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 among all that has been done under the sun, that one event [is] to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart during their life, and after it—to the dead.

5For the living know that they die, and the dead do not know anything, and there is no more reward to them, for their remembrance has been forgotten.

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Cross References

Job 27:8For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?

Lamentations 3:21This I turn to my heart—therefore 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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