Ecclesiastes 9:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

Job 30:23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Psalm 88:13

But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

Luke 20:32

And last of all, the woman came to her end.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;