Ecclesiastes 9:4
And why? As longe as a man lyueth, he is careles: for a quyck dogg (saye they) is better the a deed lion:
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- Job 14:7-9 : 7 Yf a tre be cutt downe, there is some hope yet, that it will sproute and shute forth the braunches againe: 8 For though a rote be waxen olde and deed in the grounde, yet whe the stocke 9 getteth the sent of water, it will budde, and brynge forth bowes, like as when it was first planted. 10 But as for man, when he is deed, perished and consumed awaye, what becommeth of him? 11 The floudes when they be dryed vp, & the ryuers when they be emptie, are fylled agayne thorow the flowinge waters of the see: 12 but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, vntill the heauen perish: he shal not wake vp ner ryse out of his slepe.
- Job 27:8 : 8 What hope hath ye Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre?
- Isa 38:18 : 18 For hell prayseth not the, death doth not magnifie the. They that go downe into the graue, prayse not thy treuth:
- Lam 3:21-22 : 21 Whyle I cosidre these thinges in my hert, I get a hope agayne. 22 Namely, that the mercies of the LORDE are not clene gone, & that his louynge kyndnesse ceasseth not.
- Luke 16:26-29 : 26 And beside all this, there is a greate space set betwene vs and you: so yt they which wolde go downe from hence vnto you, cannot: nether maye they passe ouer from thence vnto vs. 27 Then sayde he: I pray the then father, that thou wilt sende him vnto my fathers house, 28 for I haue yet fyue brethren, that he maye warne them, lest they also come in to this place of torment. 29 Abraham sayde vnto him: They haue Moses and the prophetes, let them heare them.
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5 for they that be lyuynge, knowe yt they shall dye: but they yt be deed, knowe nothinge, nether deserue they eny more. For their memoriall is forgotte,
6 so yt they be nether loued, hated ner envyed: nether haue they eny more parte in ye worlde, in all yt is done vnder the Sonne.
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2 Wherfore I iudged those that are deed, to be more happie then soch as be alyue:
3 yee him that is yet vnborne to be better at ease the they both, because he seith not the miserable workes that are done vnder the Sonne.
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18 I comoned wt myne owne herte also cocernynge the childre of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth the apeare, as though they were beastes:
19 for it happeneth vnto men as it doth vnto beastes, & as the one dyeth, so dyeth ye other: yee they haue both one maner of breth, so yt (in this) a man hath no preemynence aboue a beest, but all are subdued vnto vanite.
20 They go all vnto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shal they all turne vnto dust againe.
21 Who knoweth the sprete of man yt goeth vpwarde, and the breth of the beest yt goeth downe in to the earth?
22 Wherfore I perceaue, yt there is nothyinge better for a man, then to be ioyfull in his laboure, for that is his porcion. But who wil brynge him to se the thinge, that shal come after him?
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3 Amonge all thinges yt come to passe vnder the Sonne, this is a misery, that it happeneth vnto all alyke. This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse, & madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue, vntill they dye.
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2 It is better to go in to an house of mournynge, then in to a bancket house. For there is the ende of all men, and he that is lyuinge, taketh it to herte.
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9 Yee though he lyue loge, & se not ye graue.
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9 Vse thy self to lyue ioyfully wt thy wife whom thou louest, all ye daies of thy life (which is but vayne) yt God hath geue the vnder the Sonne, all ye dayes of thy vanite: for yt is thy porcion in this life, of all thy labor & trauayle yt thou takest vnder the Sonne.
10 What so euer thou takest in hande to do, that do with all thy power: for amoge the deed (where as thou goest vnto) there is nether worke, councell, knowlege ner wy?dome.
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6 Yee though he lyued two thousande yeares, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?
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48 O remembre how shorte my tyme is, hast thou made all men for naught?
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7 Yf a tre be cutt downe, there is some hope yet, that it will sproute and shute forth the braunches againe:
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16 For the wyse are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolish, and all the dayes for to come shalbe forgotten, yee the wyse man dyeth as well as ye foole.
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11 A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?
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9 Therfore two are better then one, for they maye well enioye the profit of their laboure.
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38 But God is not a God of the deed but of the lyuynge, for they lyue all vnto him.
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15 Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thinge vnder the Sonne, then to eate and drynke, and to be mery: for that shal he haue of his laboure all the daies of his life, which God geueth him vnder the Sonne.+
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14 Maye a deed man lyue agayne? All the dayes of this my pilgremage am I lokynge, when my chaunginge shal come.
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3 Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.
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20 Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?
21 (Which longe for death, and it commeth not: for yf they might fynde their graue,
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6 For vnto this purpose also was ye Gospell preached vnto the deed, yt they shulde be iudged like other me i ye flesh, but shulde lyue vnto God in ye sprete.
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12 Neuerthelesse ma abydeth not insoch honor, but is copared vnto ye brute beastes, & becometh like vnto the.
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15 These ij. thiges also haue I cosidred in ye tyme of vanite: yt the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.
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13 We wolde not brethren that ye shulde be ignoraunt concernynge them which are fallen a slepe, that ye sorowe not as other do which haue no hope.