Ecclesiastes 9:5

A Conservative Version

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Cross References

Isaiah 26:14

[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of the former [things], nor shall there be any remembrance of the latter that are to come, among those who shall come after.

Psalm 6:5

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

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

Psalm 109:15

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

Ecclesiastes 8:10

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 63:16

For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

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 will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

Psalm 88:13

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

Luke 20:32

And last of all the woman also died.