Verse 4
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.
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;