Ecclesiastes 9:4

Revised Version 1885

For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Cross References

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto 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 any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 38:18

For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.