Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.
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2 Samuel 14:14For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.
Job 14:21and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
Psalms 6:5For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades? 1
Psalms 88:13Your is the mighty arm: let your hand be strengthened, let your right hand be exalted. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:11There is no memorial to the first things; neither to the things that have been last shall their memorial be with them that shall at the last time.
Ecclesiastes 7:2A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.
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 →