1 Samuel 2:9 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 9 The feet of his loyal ones* he guards;+As for the wicked ones, they are silenced in darkness,+For not by power does a man* prove superior.+ Psalm 115:17 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 17 The dead themselves do not praise Jah,*+Nor do any going down into silence.+ Ecclesiastes 9:5 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 5 For the living are conscious that they will die;*+ but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all,*+ neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.+
9 The feet of his loyal ones* he guards;+As for the wicked ones, they are silenced in darkness,+For not by power does a man* prove superior.+
5 For the living are conscious that they will die;*+ but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all,*+ neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.+