Ecc 9:5 | CPDV | STEP | For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

5 For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten. ^{▼▼9:5Again, this is to be understood as referring to this life, not to the rewards of eternal life.(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼9:5 Know nothing more: Viz., as to the transactions of this world, in which they have now no part, unless it be revealed to them; neither have they any knowledge or power now of doing any thing to secure their eternal state, (if they have not taken care of it in their lifetime:) nor can they now procure themselves any good, as the living always may do, by the grace of God.(Challoner)}