Verse 5

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
  • Eccl 1:11 : 11 There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
  • Eccl 7:2 : 2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
  • Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.