Ecclesiastes 9:5
What does Ecclesiastes 9:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Ecclesiastes 9:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For 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.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 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.
- Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;
- Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
- Job 7:8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
- Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.
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