Ecclesiastes 9:5

Tree of Life Version

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, even the memory of them is forgotten.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.

Job 14:21

If his sons achieve honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not perceive it.

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 109:15

Let their sins be before Adonai continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 6:5

Turn toward me, Adonai, deliver my soul! Save me—because of Your mercy.

Psalm 88:13

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance for former things, and things yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise man, together with the fool, is not remembered forever. For in the days to come both will be forgotten. Alas, the wise, just like the fool, must die!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind —and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried—they used to come and go from the holy place, but will soon be forgotten in the very city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

Everyone who is among the living has hope—even a living dog is better off than a dead lion.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live— dead souls do not rise. Thus You punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 63:16

For You are our Father— even if Abraham would not know us or Israel not recognize us. You, Adonai, are our Father, our Redeemer— from everlasting is Your Name.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman died too.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,