Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they die, and the dead do not know anything, and there is no more reward to them, for their remembrance has been forgotten.
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2 Samuel 14:14for we surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God does not accept a person, and has devised plans in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 14:21His sons are honored, and he does not know; And they are little, and he does not attend to them.
Psalms 6:5For in death there is no memorial of You, || In Sheol, who gives thanks to You?
Psalms 88:13And I, to You, O YHWH, I have cried, || And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
Ecclesiastes 1:11There is not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
Ecclesiastes 7:2Better to go to a house of mourning, || Than to go to a house of banqueting, || For that is the end of all men, || And the living lays [it] to his 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 →