Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
KJV
Nemo est qui semper vivat, et qui hujus rei habeat fiduciam ; melior est canis vivus leone mortuo.
Vulgate
ὅτι τίς ὃς κοινωνεῖ πρὸς πάντας τοὺς ζῶντας; ἔστιν ἐλπίς· ὅτι ὁ κύων ὁ ζῶν αὐτὸς ἀγαθὸς ὑπὲρ τὸν λέοντα τὸν νεκρόν.
LXX
For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
ASV
כִּי מִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יבחר יְחֻבַּ֔ר אֶ֥ל כָּל הַ/חַיִּ֖ים יֵ֣שׁ בִּטָּח֑וֹן כִּֽי לְ/כֶ֤לֶב חַי֙ ה֣וּא ט֔וֹב מִן הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה הַ/מֵּֽת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַרְיֵה֙
'ryh
noun · 81×
בִּטָּח֛וֹן
btchvn
noun · 3×
בָּחַ֣ר
bchr
verb · 168×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
חֹֽבְרֹ֔ת
chbrt
verb · 29×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
יֶשׁ
ysh
pronoun · 137×
כְּלָבִ֛ים
klbym
noun · 32×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 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.
- Isa 57:18 — I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
- Job 14:7 — 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.
- Job 27:8 — For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- Lam 3:21 — This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
- Luke 16:26 — 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.