"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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The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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.
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.
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.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
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.
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
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.
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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.
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.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.