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 into a house of mourning, than into a banquet house: For there is the end of all men, and he that is living taketh it to heart.

Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

The dead

Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.

For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the hell?

Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah.

Yet art thou our father: For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou LORD art our father and redeemer, and thy name is everlasting.

For the

For the wise are ever as little in remembrance as the foolish, and all the days for to come shall be forgotten, yea the wise man dieth as well as the fool.

For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

yea, and that none other man's eye shall see me anymore.

Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

The malicious tyrants when they die, are neither in life nor in the resurrection, for thou visitest them and rootest them out, and destroyest all the memorial of them.

General references

Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.

I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.