Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

⁴For anyone who is united to all the living, there is hope, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵For living people know they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have any reward because their memory is forgotten.

⁶Their love, hatred, and envy have vanished long ago. They will never have a place again in anything done under the sun.