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 dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living.

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

The dead

His sons shall be honoured and he shall not know of it; or they shall be afflicted, but he shall not perceive 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 the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our father; our everlasting Redeemer is thy name.

For the

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever, seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And also the wise man shall die the same as the fool.

Then I also saw that the wicked who were buried came into remembrance more than those who had frequented the holy place, and these were forgotten in the city where they had worked uprightly. This also is vanity.

The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be.

Let them be before the LORD 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 because thou hast visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.

General references

Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

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