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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 9 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.