Księga Kaznodziei 9:4

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Tak, komu dane pożyć dłużej, dla tego jest jeszcze nadzieja, bo lepszy żywy pies niż martwy lew.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Abowiem póki człowiek żywie w towarzystwie ze wszytkimi ludźmi, póty wżdy ma nadzieję, abowiem pies żywy lepszy jest niż lew zdechły.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Albowiem ktokolwiek się towarzyszy ze wszystkimi żywymi, ma nadzieję, (Gdyż i pies żywy lepszy jest, niż lew zdechły;)

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A kto zostaje wyłączony ? Dla wszystkich żyjących jest jeszcze nadzieja; gdyż nawet żywy pies jest lepszy niż zdechły lew.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Albowiem ktokolwiek się towarzyszy ze wszystkimi żywymi, ma nadzieję, (Gdyż i pies żywy lepszy jest, niż lew zdechły;)

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Ktokolwiek bowiem jest złączony ze wszystkimi żyjącymi, ma nadzieję, gdyż lepszy jest żywy pies niż zdechły lew.

Biblia Warszawska
Kto należy do grona żyjących, ten jeszcze ma nadzieję; gdyż żywy pies jest lepszy niż martwy lew.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 14:7-12, Job 27:8, Isaiah 38:18, Lamentations 3:21, Lamentations 3:22, Luke 16:26-29

Reciprocal: Job 24:19 - so doth Ecclesiastes 4:2 - General Isaiah 57:18 - to his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope,.... That is, who is among the living, is one of them, and, as long as he is, there is hope, if his circumstances are mean, and he is poor and afflicted, that it may be better with him in time; see Job 14:7; or of his being a good man, though now wicked; of his being called and converted, as some are at the eleventh hour, even on a death bed; and especially there is a hope of men, if they are under the means of grace, seeing persons have been made partakers of the grace of God after long waiting. There is here a "Keri" and a "Cetib", a marginal reading and a textual writing; the former reads, "that is joined", the latter, "that is chosen"; our version follows the marginal reading, as do the Targum, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: some, following the latter, render the words, "who is to be chosen" y, or preferred, a living, or a dead man? not a dead but a living man: "to all the living there is hope"; of their being better; and, as Jarchi observes, there is hope, while alive, even though he is a wicked man joined to the wicked; yea, there is hope of the wicked, that he may be good before he dies;

for a living dog is better than a dead lion; a proverbial speech, showing that life is to be preferred to death; and that a mean, abject, and contemptible person, living, who for his despicable condition may be compared to a dog, is to be preferred to the most generous man, or to the greatest potentate, dead; since the one may possibly be useful in some respects or another, the other cannot: though a living sinner, who is like to a dog for his uncleanness and vileness, is not better than a dead saint or righteous man, comparable to a lion, who has hope in his death, and dies in the Lord.

y מי אשר יבחר "quisquis eligatur", Montanus, so Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For to him - Rather: “Yet to him.” Notwithstanding evils, life has its advantage, and especially when compared with death.

Dog - To the Hebrews a type of all that was contemptible 1 Samuel 17:43.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 9:4. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope — While a man lives he hopes to amend, and he hopes to have a better lot; and thus life is spent, hoping to grow better, and hoping to get more. The Vulgate has, "There is none that shall live always, nor has any hope of such a thing." Perhaps the best translation is the following: "What, therefore, is to be chosen? In him that is living there is hope." Then choose that eternal life which thou hopest to possess.

A living dog is better than a dead lion. — I suppose this was a proverb. The smallest measure of animal existence is better than the largest of dead matter. The poorest living peasant is infinitely above Alexander the Great.