Ecclesiastes 9:4 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ [There is no exemption] but he who is joined to all the living has hope–for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Common English Bible

⁴ Whoever is among the living can be certain about this. A living dog is definitely better off than a dead lion,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ There is no one who lives forever, or who even has confidence in this regard. A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, When God taketh away his soul?

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil among all things that are 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.