Ecclesiastes 9:5 in the World English Bible
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Context
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 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.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.