Ecclesiastes 9:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; and they have no more reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Common English Bible

⁵ because the living know that they will die. But the dead know nothing at all. There is no more reward for them; even the memory of them is lost.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 Cross References

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

Job 14:21

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Psalm 88:13

But I, O Lord, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman also died.