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

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

The dead

His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

For in death none remembering thee: in hades who shall give thanks to thee?

Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence.

For thou our Father, for Abraham knew us not, and Israel will not recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father redeeming us; thy name from eternity.

For the

For no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one.

And so then I saw the unjust buried, and they came and they will go from the holy place, and they will be forgotten in the city where they did thus: also this is vanity.

The eye of him seeing me shall not look after me: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not

They shall be before Jehovah always, and their remembrance shall be cut off from the earth.

The dead shall not live; shades shall not rise; for this, thou reviewedst and thou wilt destroy them, and all remembrance to them shall perish.

General references

And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.

I said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in the land of the living: I shall no more behold man with the inhabitants of the place of rest.