5For 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:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)Solomon, in a fret, had praised the dead more than the living (Eccl. 4:2); but here, considering the advantages of life to prepare for death and make sure the hope of a better life, he seems to be of another mind. I. He shows the advantages which the living have above those that are dead, Eccl. 9:4-6. 1. While there is life there is hope. Dum spiro, spero—While I breathe, I hope . It is the privil…
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