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 should take this to heart.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

The dead

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

For the

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

General references

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.