Ecclesiastes 9:4

World English Bible (2000)

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are 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, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
  • Lam 3:21-22 : 21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. 22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
  • Luke 16:26-29 : 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' 27 "He said, 'I ask 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, so they won't also come into this place of torment.' 29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3 Yes, better than them both is him 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%

    18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

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

  • Eccl 9:3
    73%

    3 This is an evil in all that is 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%

    2 It 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 should take this to heart.

  • Ps 49:9
    71%

    9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Live 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 life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

  • Eccl 3:12
    70%

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

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

  • Ps 89:48
    69%

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

  • Job 14:7
    69%

    7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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

  • Eccl 6:8
    69%

    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 11:8
    68%

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

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

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

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

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

  • Prov 14:32
    68%

    32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

  • Job 33:30
    68%

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

  • Eccl 4:9
    68%

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

  • Luke 20:38
    68%

    38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

  • Eccl 8:15
    68%

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

  • Job 14:14
    67%

    14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

  • Eccl 6:3
    67%

    3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

  • Job 3:20-22
    3 verses
    67%

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

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    67%

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

  • Ps 49:12
    67%

    12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Eccl 9:1
    66%

    1 For 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 is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

  • Eccl 7:15
    66%

    15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

  • Eccl 2:24
    66%

    24 There 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%

    18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- and men praise you when you do well for yourself--

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

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 21:16
    66%

    16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Isa 38:16
    66%

    16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

  • Ps 146:5
    66%

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

  • Ps 34:12
    66%

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

  • Acts 24:15
    66%

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

  • 1 Thess 4:13
    66%

    13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.