Ecclesiastes 9:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

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.

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the LORD continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 88:13

But unto thee, O LORD, have I cried, And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Isaiah 63:16

For thou art our father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O LORD, art our father; our redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

Luke 20:32

Afterward the woman also died.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;