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Ecclesiastes 9:4

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

For {H4310} to him that is {H3426} joined {H2266}{H977} to all the living {H2416} there is hope {H986}: for a living {H2416} dog {H3611} is better {H2896} than a dead {H4191} lion {H738}.

For as long as a person is linked with the living, there is hope - better to be a living dog than a dead lion!

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

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

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 38:18 (6 votes)

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

  • Job 14:7 (6 votes)

    ¶ 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 14:12 (6 votes)

    So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Lamentations 3:21 (5 votes)

    ¶ This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

  • Lamentations 3:22 (5 votes)

    [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

  • Luke 16:26 (5 votes)

    And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come] from thence.

  • Luke 16:29 (5 votes)

    Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.