Ecclesiastes 9:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.”
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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
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