A Live Dog is Better Off Than a Dead Lion (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10)

A Live Dog is Better off Than a Dead Lion (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

Dr. Paul MacDonald RN МA Dipl

Those Living Know They Will Die

The living are conscious that there is a future before them: but the dead are unconscious; they earn nothing, receive nothing, even the memory of them soon disappears; they are no longer excited by the passions which belong to people in this life; their share in its activity has ceased.

Those Who Are Dead Are Gone

Solomon here describes what he sees, and he makes no reference to the fact, or the mode of the existence of the soul in another world. The soul is dead and gone and is aware of nothing. His thoughts have perished with him (Psalms 146:3).

The Dead Have No Portion With Those Living

The last clause of Ecclesiastes 9:6 indicates that the writer confines his observations on the dead to their portion in, or relation to, this world.

Both Man and Beast Go Back to the Dust

Like the beast of the field, man also goes back to the dust. Man and beast have no advantage over each other, as they both go to the same place when they die (Ecclesiastes 3:17:20).

Those Alive Should Do What They Can Now

For this reason, Solomon tells us to seek God now while we are alive (Ecclesiastes 12:6), for after death there is nothing more to do under the sun (Ecclesiastes 9:10).

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Paul MacDonald RN МA Dipl ©
Israel Institute of Biblical Studies