4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. …
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. …
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. …
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)Solomon, in a fret, had praised the dead more than the living (Eccl. 4:2); but here, considering the advantages of life to prepare for death and make sure the hope of a better life, he seems to be of another mind. I. He shows the advantages which the living have above those that are dead, Eccl. 9:4-6. 1. While there is life there is hope. Dum spiro, spero—While I breathe, I hope . It is the privil…
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