Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

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⁴ But whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.^{(A) 6} Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.^(B)