Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

The Voice

⁴ So long as we are alive, we have hope; it is better to be a living dog, you see, than a dead lion. ⁵ At least the living know they will die; the dead don’t know anything. No future, no reward is awaiting them, and one day they will be completely forgotten. ⁶ All of their love and hate and envy die with them; then it is too late to share in the human struggle under the sun.