Ecclesiastes 9:4 - Compare All Versions

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Still, anyone selected out for life has hope, for, as they say, “A living dog is better than a dead lion.” The living at least know something, even if it’s only that they’re going to die. But the dead know nothing and get nothing. They’re a minus that no one remembers. Their loves, their hates, yes, even their dreams, are long gone. There’s not a trace of them left in the affairs of this earth.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.

But anyone still alive has hope; even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

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

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

[There is no exemption,] but whoever is joined with all the living, has hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.

There is hope only for the living. As they say, “It’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion!”

But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.