Ecclesiastes 9:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

No man there is, that liveth ever, and that hath trust of this thing; better is a quick dog than a dead lion.

Cross References

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of an hypocrite, if he ravisheth greedily, and God delivereth not his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells [or to hell].

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For they that live know that they shall die; but dead men know nothing more, neither have meed further; for their mind is given to forgetting.

Isaiah 38:18

For not hell shall acknowledge to thee, neither death shall praise thee; they that go down into the pit, shall not abide thy truth.