Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴ For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ For the living know they will die; but the dead ^(A)do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their ^(B)memory is forgotten. ⁶ Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a ^(C)share in all that is done under the sun.