Ecclesiastes 9:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

⁴ There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.