Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.(A)
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Isaiah 26:14
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14 The dead do not live;
shades do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them
and wiped out all memory of them.(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:11
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11 The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Psalm 6:5
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5 For in death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who can give you praise?(A)
Psalm 88:10-12
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10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the shades rise up to praise you? Selah(A)
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your wonders known in the darkness
or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?(B)
Job 14:21
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21 Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;
they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.(A)
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
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Psalm 109:15
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Footnotes
- 109.15 Gk: Heb their
Ecclesiastes 8:10
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God’s Ways Are Inscrutable
10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.
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Isaiah 63:16
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16 For you are our father,
though Abraham does not know us
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our father;
our Redeemer from of old is your name.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:2
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2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of everyone,
and the living will lay it to heart.(A)
Job 7:8-10
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8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.(A)
9 As the cloud fades and vanishes,
so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;(B)
10 they return no more to their houses,
nor do their places know them any more.(C)
Job 30:23
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23 I know that you will bring me to death,
to the house appointed for all living.(A)
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