Ecclesiastes 9:5

Modern English Version

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no more reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; He devises plans so that His banished ones will not be cast out from Him.

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.

Job 30:23

For I know that You will 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 You; in Sheol who will give You thanks?

Psalm 88:13

But to You have I cried out, O  Lord, and in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is not a remembrance of the former things, and, moreover, there will not be a remembrance of the things yet to come, even by those who are yet to come.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise or the fool, seeing that in the coming days everyone will have been forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning for a funeral than to go to a house of feasting for a celebration; for this is the destiny of all humanity; and the living should consider this in their heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching. They would enter and leave the holy temple, and they were praised in the city where they did works. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But for the one who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead shall not live; the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore, You have punished and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish.

Isaiah 63:16

For You are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel does not recognize us. You, O  Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.

Luke 20:32

Last of all, the woman died also.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,