Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
Job 14:21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?
Psalms 88:13But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
Ecclesiastes 1:11There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.
Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:5-11
The Consequences of Death; The Proper Enjoyment of Life. 4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 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. 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. 7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink… Read the whole commentary →