Ecclesiastes 9:5

New King James Version

For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten.

Cross References

Isaiah 26:14

They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of former things, Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come after.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; They are brought low, and he does not perceive it.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool!

Psalm 109:15

Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 63:16

Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Lord, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart.

Job 30:23

For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

Psalm 88:13

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

Luke 20:32

Last of all the woman died also.