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Ecc 9:5 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the living		Ecc 7:2; Job 30:23; Hbr 9:27
the dead		Job 14:21; Psa 6:5; Psa 88:10,11; Isa 63:16
for the		Ecc 2:16; Ecc 8:10; Job 7:8-10; Psa 109:15; Isa 26:14

Correlating Passages

the living

	Ecc 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.
	Job 30:23	For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
	Hbr 9:27	And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

the dead

	Job 14:21	His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
	Psa 6:5	For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
	Psa 88:10	Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
	Psa 88:11	Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
	Isa 63:16	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.

for the

	Ecc 2:16	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.
	Ecc 8:10	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.
	Job 7:8	The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
	Job 7:9	[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].
	Job 7:10	He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
	Psa 109:15	Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
	Isa 26:14	[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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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 9:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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