Ecclesiastes 9:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The living

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Job 30:23

Hebrews 9:27

The dead

For the

Isaiah 26:14

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Isaiah 38:11

Bible References

The living

It is 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 lay it to his heart.

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

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

The dead

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah

For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

For the

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave ; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

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

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

General references

Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.