Ecclesiastes 9:5

Ecclesiastes chapter 9 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.4For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

v.5This passage

v.6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

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.