Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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WEBBE

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

BSB

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

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.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.