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Ecclesiastes 9:4
New English Translation

Better to Be Poor but Alive than Rich but Dead

4 But whoever is among[a] the living[b] has hope;
a live dog is better than a dead lion.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:4 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “is chosen, selected.” The translation follows the marginal reading (Qere), “is joined.” See BDB 288 s.v. חָבַר Pu.
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:4 tn Heb “all the living.”
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