Ecclesiastes 9:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For to him that is joined to 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 for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease. 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant. 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
  • Lam 3:21-22 : 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. 22 It is because of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.
  • Luke 16:26-29 : 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there. 27 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham said to him, 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 nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:18-22
    5 verses
    73%

    18I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are like beasts.

    19For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

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

    21Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

    22Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 9:3
    73%

    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, 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 take it to heart.

  • Ps 49:9
    71%

    9That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.

    10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.

  • Eccl 3:12
    70%

    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6Yes, even if he lives a thousand years twice over, yet has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Ps 89:48
    69%

    48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • Job 14:7
    69%

    7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:8
    69%

    8For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 11:8
    68%

    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.

    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Prov 14:32
    68%

    32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Job 33:30
    68%

    30To bring back his soul from the pit, to 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%

    38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

  • Eccl 8:15
    68%

    15So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

  • Job 14:14
    67%

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Eccl 6:3
    67%

    3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.

  • Job 3:20-22
    3 verses
    67%

    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    67%

    6For this reason was the gospel preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Ps 49:12
    67%

    12Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • Eccl 9:1
    66%

    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 7:15
    66%

    15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Eccl 2:24
    66%

    24There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.

  • Ps 49:18-19
    2 verses
    66%

    18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.

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

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • Prov 21:16
    66%

    16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • Isa 38:16
    66%

    16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so You will restore me, and make me live.

  • Ps 146:5
    66%

    5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

  • Ps 34:12
    66%

    12Who is the man that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

  • Acts 24:15
    66%

    15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

  • 1 Thess 4:13
    66%

    13But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.