Verse 5

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, 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.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he shall never taste death.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death: 24 But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.