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

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.

And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

The dead

His children may [come to] honor, but he does not know [it]; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it.

For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do [the] departed spirits rise up [to] praise you? Selah

For you [are] our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh [are] our father, Our Redeemer from [of] old [is] your name.

For the

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!

The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,

[The] dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.

General references

So I deemed the dead who have already died more [fortunate] than the living who are still alive.

I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among [the] inhabitants of [the] world.