Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.
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2 Samuel 14:14for we do surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 14:21Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
Psalms 6:5For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?
Psalms 88:13And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee.
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 unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth [it] unto 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 →