4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


In Context

1 For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

2 All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

3 This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead.

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

5 For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:4Anyone who is among the living has hope -even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:4There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:4But 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.