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[There is no exemption] but he who is joined to all the living has hope—for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; and they have no more reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.

Their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished; neither have they any more a share in anything that is done under the sun.

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Anyone who is among the living has hope[a]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name(B) is forgotten.(C)
Their love, their hate
    and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
    in anything that happens under the sun.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:4 Or What then is to be chosen? With all who live, there is hope