Ecclesiastes 9:4

Young's Literal Translation 1898

But [to] him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it [is] better than to the dead lion.

Cross References

Job 27:8

For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This [is] an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event [is] to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart during their life, and after it — unto the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.