Ecclesiastes 9:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

As long as we are alive, we still have hope, just as a live dog is better off than a dead lion.

Cross References

Job 27:8

Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful will cut them down,

Ecclesiastes 9:3

It's terribly unfair for the same thing to happen to each of us. We are mean and foolish while we live, and then we die.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

We know that we will die, but the dead don't know a thing. Nothing good will happen to them—they are gone and forgotten.

Isaiah 38:18

No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.