Verse 5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
  • Eccl 1:11 : 11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol 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 should take this to heart.
  • Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah. 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.