Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
Cross References
Job 14:21
If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

Psalm 88:12
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 8:10
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 9:4
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Isaiah 26:14
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.


Treasury of Scripture
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

the living



Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.



Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.



Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

the dead



Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.



Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?



Psalm 88:10,11
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah…

for the



Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.



Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.



Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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