Ecclesiastes 9:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Job 14:21

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?

Psalm 88:13

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

Ecclesiastes 1:11

The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman also died.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,