“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.”
The observation that the living know they will die, while the dead know nothing and have no further reward or memory, reinforces the finality of death in the present-focused vision of Ecclesiastes. The dead cannot enjoy the fruits of their labor; knowledge and experience terminate. This verse emphasizes the consequentiality of the present life; what happens after death is non-being.
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