[Biblemat] Understanding Eccl. 9:5-6 The dead know not any thing

[Jessie]

                                              Understanding Eccl. 9:5-6     

                                       "The dead know not any thing"
What does this mean? Is this passage teaching that when one passes away that they have no memory of things that transpired in his life while he was on the earth? No! Let us read the verse (Eccl 9:5-6) 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.
 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. 

a. For the living know that they shall die: The first part of this verse is simple; it teaches that we who are living know that we will die. "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living (Job 30:23)." "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Heb.9:27)" 
b.    but the dead know not any thing, when one is dead one of his family may be honored or brought low but he will never know it, for he know longer lives on the earth. "His Son come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them (Job 14:21)."  
It does not appear that they know any thing of what is done by those they leave behind. Abraham is ignorant of us; "Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting (Isa.63:16)." 
 
c. neither have they any more a reward; Those that have passed from this life have no more a reward for their toils about the world, but all they got must be left to others; they have a reward for their actions how they lived their life while on the earth, they will receive that reward on the other side, but not their worldly reward, all that they work for will be left to others.
d. For the memory of them is forgotten. When one dies the memory of him is soon forgotten, "he shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more (Job 7:8-10)."
e.   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. It is evident by this verse that it is speaking of the dead, those that have passed from this earth that they are know longer under the sun, and therefore they do not know any thing that is done under the sun. There are but few whose names survive them very long, the grave is the place where the survivors soon forget, for the memory of those that are laid there is soon forgotten. Eccl 2:18-22 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.  For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
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