Yes, it unequivocally does. Sheol is **not** the place of dead, rotting, physical bodies, *nor* is it the place of the spiritually dead. It's the place where the souls of the dead are. There is no other pragmatic way to interpret this scripture other than that dead souls are entirely unconscious. Ecclesiastes 9:5 is a little more ambiguous than 9:10;

>"For the living know that they will die, but **the dead know nothing**. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten."

Does the author mean the spiritually dead? Does he mean dead, physical bodies? Many have tried to interpret it as such. Ecclesiastes 9:10, however, **cannot** under *any* circumstances be taken as such. Sheol is incontrovertibly the place of dead souls; ask any reputable scholar or assess any Hebrew lexicon. The author makes it clear that in Sheol, the place where dead souls belong, consciousness is possessed by *no one*.


Also, notice how the scripture does not say the dead in Sheol have no knowledge of what is occurring apropos the living. The passage does **not** say that there is no knowledge[being acquired about the earth and its happenings] in Sheol. It says;

>Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is **no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol**, to which you are going."

It does not make a reference to life or the living. It straightforwardly says what it says; that those in a **state of death** *in* **Sheol** have **no work**, **no device/thinking ability**, **no knowledge**, and **no wisdom**, end of story; plain and uncomplicated. To say anything otherwise would be to go beyond what is (so clearly) written(i.e. to add to what is written in scripture what *clearly* isn't found), which we are warned against by the apostle Paul at 1 Corinthians 4:6;

>1 Corinthians 4:6 "I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may **learn by us not to go beyond what is written**, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another."


Thus, Ecclesiastes 9:10 unambiguously and indisputably proves that the dead know naught, and corroborates what is said at Ecclesiastes 9:5, Psalm 6:5, Psalm 88:10-12, Psalm 115:17, Psalm 146:4, and Isaiah 38:18-19, bringing everything together in total harmony.