Ecclesiastes 9:5

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.

Cross References (13)

  • Isaiah 26:14 (25)

    The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wip

  • Ecclesiastes 1:11 (23)

    There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after

  • Psalms 6:5 (18)

    For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

  • Psalms 88:10–12 (15)

    Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

  • Job 14:21 (14)

    If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

  • Hebrews 9:27 (14)

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  • Psalms 109:15 (13)

    May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:16 (12)

    For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days t

  • Ecclesiastes 8:10 (8)

    Then 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

  • Isaiah 63:16 (8)

    Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;

  • Job 7:8–10 (7)

    The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:2 (6)

    It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living

  • Job 30:23 (4)

    Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.