9:5a For the living know that they will die,

The living at least know they will die, (New Living Translation (2004))
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We who are alive know that some day we will die, (Translation for Translators)

9:5b but the dead know nothing.

whereas dead people do not know anything.
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but the dead people don’t even know that.

9:5c They have no further reward,

They do not receive any more rewards.
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No more good things can happen to them. (EEB)

9:5d because the memory of them is forgotten.

Indeed, people just forget about them.
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Nobody remembers them. (EEB)

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