Ecclesiastes 9:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.”
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“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 9:5 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 14:21If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
- Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 6:5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
- Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Psalms 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
- Isaiah 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Luke 20:32And last of all, the woman died.
- Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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