Ecclesiastes 9:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

But `to' him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it `is' better than to the dead lion.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease. 8 If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust, 9 From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant. 10 And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he? 11 Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry. 12 And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
  • Lam 3:21-22 : 21 This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope. 22 The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
  • Luke 16:26-29 : 26 and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through. 27 `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father, 28 for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. 29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

    6Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

    3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:18-22
    5 verses
    73%

    18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

    19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

    20The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

    21Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 9:3
    73%

    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 7:2
    72%

    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

  • Ps 49:9
    71%

    9And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

    10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

  • Eccl 3:12
    70%

    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

  • Ps 89:48
    69%

    48Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

  • Job 14:7
    69%

    7For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:8
    69%

    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 11:8
    68%

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

    16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Prov 14:32
    68%

    32In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

  • 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%

    9The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

  • Luke 20:38
    68%

    38and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

  • Eccl 8:15
    68%

    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

  • Job 14:14
    67%

    14If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

  • Eccl 6:3
    67%

    3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

  • Job 3:20-22
    3 verses
    67%

    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

    21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

    22Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    67%

    6for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

  • Ps 49:12
    67%

    12And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

  • Eccl 9:1
    66%

    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 7:15
    66%

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Eccl 2:24
    66%

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

  • Ps 49:18-19
    2 verses
    66%

    18For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

    19It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24A path of life `is' on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

  • Prov 21:16
    66%

    16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.

  • Isa 38:16
    66%

    16Lord, by these do `men' live, And by all in them `is' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

  • Ps 146:5
    66%

    5O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope `is' on Jehovah his God,

  • Ps 34:12
    66%

    12Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

  • Acts 24:15
    66%

    15having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, `that' there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

  • 1 Thess 4:13
    66%

    13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,