5 For the living know that they will die, but tthe dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the umemory of them is forgotten.
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Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 9:15
But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
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