Isaiah 38:18; Job 14:7-12; Job 27:8; Lamentations 3:21; Lamentations 3:22; Luke 16:26-29
For to him - Rather: “Yet to him.” Notwithstanding evils, life has its advantage, and especially when compared with death. Dog - To the Hebre...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (c) living dog is better than a dead lion. (c) He notes the Epicurean and carnal me...
Ecclesiastes 8:16 to Ecclesiastes 9:16 . Life's Riddle Baffles the Wisest Quest. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16 b describes the ceasel...
For to him that is joined. Connect this with the end of preceding verse and render "For who is excepted? To all the living", &c. hope . confi...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For to him that is joined to all the living t...
For to him that is joined to all the living, there is hope— And surely, whoever is in society, with all the living, hath hope. For a living dog ha...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For to him that is joined to all the...
Live Worthily While You May 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die.
A living dog ] Life has at any rate one advantage over death. The miserable hope that either positive happiness, or at least better fortune than in...
There is a various reading here in the Hebrew. Our translators, following the older translators, adopt the reading of the margin. That of the text gi...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; Bu...
The Chief Good not to be found in Wisdom : Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 ; Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defin...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man livi...
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evi...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope ,.... That is, who is among the living, is one of them, and, as long as he is, there is ho...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Ver. 4. For to him that is joined to all t...
For to him that is joined to all the living That continues with living men; there is hope He hath not only some comfort for the present, but also...
The Consequences of Death; The Proper Enjoyment of Life. 4 For to him...
That is joined to all the living; that continueth in the land and society of living men. Or, according to the reading of the Hebrew text, that is...
Chapter 9 The Same Things Happen to All Whether They Be Righteous, Wise Or Sons of Men. And In The End All Die In The Same Way. So Let The Righteous...
‘For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 9:2 . One event.] An equal chance or happening—the wisest and best having no special destiny (chap. Ecclesiastes 2...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a...
Ecclesiastes 9:4 The lesson of the Preacher is an old one. While there is life there is hope, and only while there is life. Let us be up and doing...
Ecclesiastes 9:5 . The dead know not any thing. This is explained by the next phrase, the memory of them is forgotten. Elijah went up to heaven,...
A living dog is better than a dead lion. Sinners, living and dead I. Some sinners are more contemptible than others. There is as much differenc...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 9:1-21 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper w...
Concerning Human Destiny
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, and so the condition of the living is still to be preferred, one should not give way to a...
Joined — That continues with living men. Hope — He hath not only some comfort for the present, but also hopes of further happiness in this world. B...
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.