Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁶ Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.