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
The dead
General references
Bible References
The living
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 all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
The dead
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Psalm 88:10
Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
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.
For the
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 8:10
Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.
Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
Psalm 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
General references
Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORDin the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.