Ecclesiastes 9:4

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.

Cross References

Job 27:8

For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This an evil in all being done under the sun, thus one event is to all: and also the heart of the sons of man being full of evil, and folly in their heart in their living, and after it to their deaths.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.

Isaiah 38:18

For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.