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.

General references

Bible References

The living

Ecclesiastes 7:2
Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.
Job 30:23
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
Hebrews 9:27
and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

The dead

Job 14:21
Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
Psalm 6:5
For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?
Psalm 88:10
To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.
Isaiah 63:16
For Thou art our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, Our redeemer from the age, is Thy name.

For the

Ecclesiastes 2:16
That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.
Job 7:8
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.
Psalm 109:15
They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.
Isaiah 26:14
Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.