Ecclesiastes 9:5

New English Translation

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward – and even the memory of them disappears.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

Job 14:21

If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

Job 30:23

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Psalm 109:15

May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

Psalm 6:5

For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

Psalm 88:13

As for me, I cry out to you, O Lord; in the morning my prayer confronts you.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

No one remembers the former events, nor will anyone remember the events that are yet to happen; they will not be remembered by the future generations.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies – just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Not only that, but I have seen the wicked approaching and entering the temple, and as they left the holy temple, they boasted in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman died too.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,