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 weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

The dead

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

For the

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

General references

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.