Better to Be Poor but Alive than Rich but Dead

4 But whoever is among the living has hope;

a live dog is better than a dead lion.

5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;

they have no further reward – and even the memory of them disappears.

6 What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago,

and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.