Ecclesiastes 9:4

For who is he that has fellowship with all the living? 1 There is hope of him: 1 For a living dog is better than a dead lion. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

3There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, 1 That there is one event to all: 1 Yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, 1 And madness is in their heart during their life, 1 And after that they go to the dead. 1

5For the living will know that they shall die: 1 But the dead know nothing, 1 And there is no longer any reward to them; 1 For their memory is lost. 1

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Cross References

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? 1 Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved? 1

Lamentations 3:21This will I lay up in my heart, 1 Therefore will I endure. 1

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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