New Revised Standard Version
The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

Contemporary English Version
We know we will die, but the dead don't know a thing. Nothing good will happen to them--they are gone and forgotten.

New American Bible
For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

the living

Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

the dead

Job 14:21 Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.

Psalm 6:5 For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

Psalm 88:10,11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? . . .

Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

for the

Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

Job 7:8-10 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. . . .

Psalm 109:15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

Isaiah 26:14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.