Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"While someone is among the living, hope remains," because "it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion."
New American Standard Bible
For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
King James Version
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Holman Bible
But there is hope for whoever is joined
A Conservative Version
Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
American Standard Version
For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Amplified
[There is no exemption,] but whoever is joined with all the living, has hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Bible in Basic English
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Darby Translation
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Julia Smith Translation
For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.
King James 2000
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion!
Modern King James verseion
For whoever is chosen, to all those living, there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? As long as a man liveth, he is careless: for a quick dog, say they, is better than a dead lion.
NET Bible
But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.
New Heart English Bible
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
The Emphasized Bible
For, whosoever was united to all the living, for him, there was hope, - -inasmuch as, a living dog, fared better than a dead lion.
Webster
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
World English Bible
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Death Deprives Humans Of Everything In Life
3 There is a tragedy that infects everything that happens on earth: a common event happens to everyone. In fact, the hearts of human beings are full of evil. Madness remains in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead. 4 "While someone is among the living, hope remains," because "it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion." 5 At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.
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Cross References
Job 14:7-12
"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.
Job 27:8
For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:21-22
This is what comes to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Luke 16:26-29
Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'