Ecclesiastes 9:5

New International Version

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

Job 14:21

If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Psalm 109:15

May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.

Psalm 6:5

Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

Psalm 88:13

But I cry to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

Isaiah 26:14

They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 63:16

But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Luke 20:32

Finally, the woman died too.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,