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: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

The dead

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.

For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.

For the

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

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; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.

General references

Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;

I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.