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.+ Isaiah 38:11 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 11 I have said: “I shall not see Jah, even Jah,* in the land of the living ones.+I shall no more look on mankind*—with the inhabitants of [the land of] cessation.*
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.+
11 I have said: “I shall not see Jah, even Jah,* in the land of the living ones.+I shall no more look on mankind*—with the inhabitants of [the land of] cessation.*