Verse 4

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better than a dead lion!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail. 8 Even if its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, 9 at the scent of water it will bud and produce branches like a young plant. 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he? 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
  • Lam 3:21-22 : 21 Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the LORD’s steadfast love we are not consumed, for His mercies never end.
  • Luke 16:26-29 : 26 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us. 27 He said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'