Ecclesiastes 9:6
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 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.
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.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
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, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Read in contextMatthew 2:20
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Read in contextJob 3:17–18
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:18–23
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.
Read in contextExodus 1:8
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Read in contextProverbs 10:28
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
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