Verse 4
And why? as long as a man liueth, he hath an hope: for a quicke dogge say they is better then a dead lion.
Referenced Verses
- Job 14:7-9 : 7 For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe. 8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde: 9 Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted. 10 But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him? 11 As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp: 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.
- Job 27:8 : 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite though he haue great good, if God take away his soule?
- Isa 38:18 : 18 For hell prayseth not thee, death doth not magnifie thee: they that go downe into the graue prayse not thy trueth:
- Lam 3:21-22 : 21 Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne. 22 namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed.
- Luke 16:26-29 : 26 Beyonde all this, betweene vs & you there is a great gulfe set, so that they which woulde go from hence to you, can not, neither may come from thence to vs. 27 Then he sayde: I pray thee therfore father, sende hym to my fathers house. 28 For I haue fyue brethren, that he may witnesse vnto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham sayde vnto hym: they haue Moyses and the prophetes, let them heare them.