Ecclesiastes 9:4

New American Bible - revised edition

For whoever is chosen among all the living has hope: “A live dog is better off than a dead lion.”

Cross References

Job 27:8

For what hope has the impious when he is cut off, when God requires his life?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Isaiah 38:18

For it is not Sheol that gives you thanks, nor death that praises you; Neither do those who go down into the pit await your kindness.