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.

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For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name(B) is forgotten.(C)

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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.

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14 They are now dead,(A) they live no more;
    their spirits(B) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(C)
    you wiped out all memory of them.(D)

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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.

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11 No one remembers the former generations,(A)
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.(B)

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For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?(A)

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21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

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21 If their children are honored, they do not know it;
    if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.(A)

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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.

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16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(A)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(B)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(C)

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10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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10 Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?(A)
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness(B) in Destruction[a]?
12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:11 Hebrew Abaddon

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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27 Just as people are destined to die once,(A) and after that to face judgment,(B)

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15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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15 May their sins always remain before(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(B) from the earth.

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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.

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16 But you are our Father,(A)
    though Abraham does not know us
    or Israel acknowledge(B) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
    our Redeemer(C) from of old is your name.

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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.

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10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried(A)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[a] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten

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.

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It is better to go to a house of mourning
    than to go to a house of feasting,
for death(A) is the destiny(B) of everyone;
    the living should take this to heart.

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The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
    you will look for me, but I will be no more.(A)
As a cloud vanishes(B) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave(C) does not return.(D)
10 He will never come to his house again;
    his place(E) will know him no more.(F)

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