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For the living know that they will die, but the dead don`t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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An Earthly Perspective
Commentators stress that this verse describes death from an earthly, observational perspective. When it says the dead "know not anything" and have no more "reward," it refers to their complete separation from the activities, passions, and profits of this world. As Albert Barnes notes, Solomon describes what he sees, not a full theological statement on the soul's state in the afterlife.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See (Ecclesiastes 8:12), note; (Ecclesiastes 8:14), note. The living are conscious that there is a future before them, but …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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