Ecclesiastes 9:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[There is no exemption] but he who is joined to all the living has hope–for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Whoever is among the living can be certain about this. A living dog is definitely better off than a dead lion,

Catholic Public Domain Version

There is no one who lives forever, or who even has confidence in this regard. A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ecclesiastes 9:4 Cross References

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 38:18

For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.