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.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
You are contrasting Ecclesiastes with other teachings in Scripture. You have to rightly divide the word of truth. Ecclesiastes is written from a human or physical perspective.
Ecclesiastes 1:3 KJV What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:18 KJV 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.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 KJV For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
The point of Ecclesiastes is to show that everything we do in this life alone without taking God into consideration is vanity, valueless. The history of man without God is you are born, you suffer, you die. Therefore it is said that the dead know nothing.
There are other places that look at things from man’s perspective.
Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
But, we add God and the spiritual into the mix and we learn that there is something after death, the soul lives on in one place or the other. If we live a life in the fear of God and keep his commandments, our life does have value.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 KJV Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
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