Ecclesiastes 9:4
Ecclesiastes chapter 9 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Context
v.3This 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.
v.4This passage
v.5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
- Luke 16:26
And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.
- Job 14:7
For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
- Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.