Ecclesiastes 9:5NET Bible
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward--and even the memory of them disappears.
Related Verses
Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
Genesis 1:21
God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.
Genesis 2:7
The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:9
The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)