Ecclesiastes 9:4

A Conservative Version

Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Cross References

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to 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 anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.