New Revised Standard Version
But whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Contemporary English Version
As long as we are alive, we still have hope, just as a live dog is better off than a dead lion.

New American Bible
For whoever is chosen among all the living has hope: “A live dog is better off than a dead lion.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Job 14:7-12 A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. . . .

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Isaiah 38:18 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

Lamentations 3:21,22 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. . . .

Luke 16:26-29 And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither. . . .