Ecclesiastes 9:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ecclesiastes 9:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:7-12
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. …
Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Luke 16:26-29
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. …
Lamentations 3:21-22
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. …
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Hades Life Man Sleep

Commentary

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 privile…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. For--rather, “Nevertheless.” English Version rightly reads as the Margin, Hebrew, “that is joined,” instead of the text, “who is to be chosen?” hope--not of mere temporal good (Job 14:7); but of yet repenting and being saved. dog--metaphor for the vilest persons (1Sa 24:14). lion--the noblest of animals (Pr 30:30). better--as to hope of salvation; the noblest who die unconverted have no hope; t…