Ecclesiastes 9:4

New Century Version

But anyone still alive has hope; even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

Cross References

Job 27:8

What hope do the wicked have when they die, when God takes their life away?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is something wrong that happens here on earth: What happens to one happens to all. So people’s minds are full of evil and foolish thoughts while they live. After that, they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. Dead people have no more reward, and people forget them.

Isaiah 38:18

People in the place of the dead cannot praise you; those who have died cannot sing praises to you; those who die don’t trust you to help them.