Ecclesiastes 9:5

New Living Translation

The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.

Job 14:21

They never know if their children grow up in honor or sink to insignificance.

Job 30:23

And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.

Psalm 109:15

May the Lord always remember these sins, and may his name disappear from human memory.

Psalm 6:5

For the dead do not remember you. Who can praise you from the grave?

Psalm 88:13

O Lord, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise and the foolish both die. The wise will not be remembered any longer than the fool. In the days to come, both will be forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies— so the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

I have seen wicked people buried with honor. Yet they were the very ones who frequented the Temple and are now praised in the same city where they committed their crimes! This, too, is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

There is hope only for the living. As they say, “It’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion!”

Isaiah 26:14

Those we served before are dead and gone. Their departed spirits will never return! You attacked them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten.

Isaiah 63:16

Surely you are still our Father! Even if Abraham and Jacob would disown us, Lord, you would still be our Father. You are our Redeemer from ages past.

Luke 20:32

Finally, the woman also died.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,