Ecclesiastes 9:10

In the grave whither thou goest— In the abode of the dead whither thou goest. See Peters on Job, p. 324. We have here the second inference. Whatever may be the use of other faculties to be acquired in another state, since those we now have are talents entrusted with us only for a time, it becomes us to avail ourselves of the present opportunity, and to use them to the best purposes that we can before we are divested of them.