Ecclesiastes 9:4 New English Translation (NET Bible)

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.

“Where there is life and breath, hope is always available.”

Carved into a timeless thought and underwritten in the temporal

A gift through the Grace of God makes every breath possible

Reserved to be caught effortless in the expectation of the Eternal

“A life dog to be better than a dead lion,” now surging in courage

All happenings have a purpose, often far beyond our understanding

In the sea of life, despair is oft churning with the accumulated baggage 

Within its set of limited boundaries and not beyond its demanding

Jan Wienen