Ecclesiastes 9:5

New American Bible - revised edition

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

Job 14:21

If their children are honored, they are not aware of it; or if disgraced, they do not know about them.

Job 30:23

Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Psalm 109:15

May their guilt be always before the Lord, till their memory is banished from the earth,

Psalm 6:5

Turn back, Lord, rescue my soul; save me because of your mercy.

Psalm 88:13

Are your marvels declared in the darkness, your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of past generations; nor will future generations be remembered by those who come after them. Twofold Introduction.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Meanwhile I saw the wicked buried. They would come and go from the holy place. But those were forgotten in the city who had acted justly. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going. The Time of Misfortune Is Not Known.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

For whoever is chosen among all the living has hope: “A live dog is better off than a dead lion.”

Isaiah 26:14

Dead they are, they cannot live, shades that cannot rise; Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father. Were Abraham not to know us, nor Israel to acknowledge us, You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named from of old.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman also died.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,