Ecclesiastes 9:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
  • Eccl 1:11 : 11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Eccl 7:2 : 2 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 will lay it to his heart.
  • Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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    6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

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    3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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    16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

    17 Therefore I hated life; bause the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
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    2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

    3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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    5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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    17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

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    11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

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    10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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    10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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    14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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    12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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    18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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    20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

    22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 6:5-6
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    5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

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    7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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    2 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 will lay it to his heart.

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