Ecclesiastes 9:6
4 There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
5 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.
Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
8 Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
- KJV
- Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
- WEB
- Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
- ASV
- As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
- DARBY
- Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
- BLB
- Also their love and their hatred and their jealousy already have perished, and there is not unto them anymore a portion forever in all that is done under the sun.
- ÅB
- Både deres kjærlighet og deres hat og deres ærgjerrighet er det for lenge siden forbi med, og de har i all evighet ingen del mere i alt det som hender under solen.
- OTB
- Deres kjærlighet, deres hat, og deres iver har for lengst forsvunnet; aldri mer vil de ha del i noe som skjer under solen.
- B1930
- Både deres kjærlighet og deres hat og deres ærgjerrighet er det for lenge siden forbi med, og de har i all evighet ingen del mere i alt det som hender under solen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 146:3–4
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Read in contextMatthew 2:20
“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Read in contextJob 3:17–18
There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:18–23
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Read in contextExodus 1:8
Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
Read in contextProverbs 10:28
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
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