Ecclesiastes 9:4

American Standard Version (1901)

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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  • Job 14:7-9 : 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. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
  • Lam 3:21-22 : 21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. 22 [ It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
  • Luke 16:26-29 : 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. 27 And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house; 28 for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

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  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

    6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

    3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:18-22
    5 verses
    73%

    18I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts.

    19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

    22Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 9:3
    73%

    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.

  • Eccl 7:2
    72%

    2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

  • Ps 49:9
    71%

    9That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

  • Eccl 3:12
    70%

    12I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

  • Ps 89:48
    69%

    48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

  • Job 14:7
    69%

    7For 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.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

    17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 6:8
    69%

    8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 11:8
    68%

    8Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Prov 14:32
    68%

    32The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.

  • Job 33:30
    68%

    30To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • Eccl 4:9
    68%

    9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

  • Luke 20:38
    68%

    38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

  • Eccl 8:15
    68%

    15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

  • Job 14:14
    67%

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Eccl 6:3
    67%

    3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  • Job 3:20-22
    3 verses
    67%

    20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

    22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    67%

    6For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Ps 49:12
    67%

    12But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

  • Eccl 9:1
    66%

    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

  • Eccl 7:15
    66%

    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.

  • Eccl 2:24
    66%

    24There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

  • Ps 49:18-19
    2 verses
    66%

    18Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)

    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

  • Prov 21:16
    66%

    16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Isa 38:16
    66%

    16O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

  • Ps 146:5
    66%

    5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:

  • Ps 34:12
    66%

    12What man is he that desireth life, And loveth [many] days, that he may see good?

  • Acts 24:15
    66%

    15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

  • 1 Thess 4:13
    66%

    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.