Ecclesiastes 9:5
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.
KJV
Viventes enim sciunt se esse morituros ; mortui vero nihil noverunt amplius, nec habent ultra mercedem, quia oblivioni tradita est memoria eorum.
Vulgate
ὅτι οἱ ζῶντες γνώσονται ὅτι ἀποθανοῦνται, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ οὐκ εἰσὶν γινώσκοντες οὐδέν· καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς ἔτι μισθός, ὅτι ἐπελήσθη ἡ μνήμη αὐτῶν·
LXX
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.
ASV
כִּ֧י הַֽ/חַיִּ֛ים יוֹדְעִ֖ים שֶׁ/יָּמֻ֑תוּ וְ/הַ/מֵּתִ֞ים אֵינָ֧/ם יוֹדְעִ֣ים מְא֗וּמָה וְ/אֵֽין ע֤וֹד לָ/הֶם֙ שָׂכָ֔ר כִּ֥י נִשְׁכַּ֖ח זִכְרָֽ/ם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:55 — O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
- Deut 31:14 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshu
- Eccl 1:11 — There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
- Eccl 1:11 — There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
- Eccl 2:16 — For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
- Eccl 2:16 — For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
- Eccl 7:2 — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
- Eccl 8:10 — And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
- Eccl 8:10 — And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
- Eccl 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- Gen 5:5 — And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Heb 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Heb 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Isa 26:14 — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
- Isa 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
- Job 7:8 — The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
- Job 14:21 — His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
- Job 14:21 — His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
- Job 30:23 — For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- Job 30:23 — For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- Luke 20:32 — Last of all the woman died also.
- Ps 6:5 — For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
- Ps 88:10 — Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
- Ps 88:12 — Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Ps 89:48 — What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
- Ps 109:15 — Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.