Ecclesiastes 9:5
New Living Translation
5 The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered.
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Isaiah 26:14
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14 Those we served before are dead and gone.
Their departed spirits will never return!
You attacked them and destroyed them,
and they are long forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 1:11
New Living Translation
11 We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
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Psalm 6:5
New Living Translation
5 For the dead do not remember you.
Who can praise you from the grave?[a]
Footnotes
- 6:5 Hebrew from Sheol?
Psalm 88:10-12
New Living Translation
10 Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead?
Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude
11 Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?
Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?[a]
12 Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?
Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
Footnotes
- 88:11 Hebrew in Abaddon?
Job 14:21
New Living Translation
21 They never know if their children grow up in honor
or sink to insignificance.
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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16 For the wise and the foolish both die. The wise will not be remembered any longer than the fool. In the days to come, both will be forgotten.
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Psalm 109:15
New Living Translation
15 May the Lord always remember these sins,
and may his name disappear from human memory.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
New Living Translation
10 I have seen wicked people buried with honor. Yet they were the very ones who frequented the Temple and are now praised[a] in the same city where they committed their crimes! This, too, is meaningless.
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- 8:10 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version; many Hebrew manuscripts read and are forgotten.
Isaiah 63:16
New Living Translation
16 Surely you are still our Father!
Even if Abraham and Jacob[a] would disown us,
Lord, you would still be our Father.
You are our Redeemer from ages past.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
New Living Translation
2 Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties.
After all, everyone dies—
so the living should take this to heart.
Job 7:8-10
New Living Translation
8 You see me now, but not for long.
You will look for me, but I will be gone.
9 Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes,
those who die[a] will not come back.
10 They are gone forever from their home—
never to be seen again.
Footnotes
- 7:9 Hebrew who go down to Sheol.
Job 30:23
New Living Translation
23 And I know you are sending me to my death—
the destination of all who live.
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