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.
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{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.
{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.
For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise thee? Selah.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth {it} not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth {it} not of them.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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.
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.
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. {our redeemer...: or, our redeemer from everlasting is thy name}
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
{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.
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do {it} with thy might; for {there is} no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
What man {is he that} liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
For we must needs die, and {are} as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect {any} person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. {neither...: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc}
{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.
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth {it} not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth {it} not of them.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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.
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.
Last of all the woman died also.
O death, where {is} thy sting? O grave, where {is} thy victory? {grave: or, hell}
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
I said, I shall not see the LORD, {even} the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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. {our redeemer...: or, our redeemer from everlasting is thy name}
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.