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They no longer play a part in anything here on earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any <i>thing</i> that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; Nevermore will they have a share In anything done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ecclesiastes/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will never again have a portion in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Indeed their love, their hatred and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share [in this age] in anything that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Their loves, their hates, and their jealous feelings have all disappeared with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens on this earth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />As well their love, as 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Their love, their hate, and their passions have already vanished. They will never again take part in anything that happens under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Their loves, their hates, their passions, all died with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens in this world. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Furthermore, their love, their hate, and their envy have been long lost. Never again will they have a part in what happens on earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ecclesiastes/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, hath now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ecclesiastes/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, has already perished, and they have no more portion for all time in all that has been done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Likewise, love and hatred and envy have all perished together, nor have they any place in this age and in the work which is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Also their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Also their love and their hatred and also their envy is now destroyed, and there is no more portion for them for eternity in all whatever is done under the sun<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ecclesiastes/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is long ago perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8-2fxj-VcEg?start=1697" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Death Comes to Good and Bad</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>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. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/160.htm" title="160: ’a·hă·ḇā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Love (noun). Feminine of 'ahab and meaning the same.">Their love,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: gam- (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/8135.htm" title="8135: śin·’ā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Hating, hatred. From sane'; hate.">their hate,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: gam- (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: gam (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. ">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/7068.htm" title="7068: qin·’ā·ṯām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Ardor, zeal, jealousy. From qana'; jealousy or envy.">their envy</a> <a href="/hebrew/3528.htm" title="3528: kə·ḇār (Adv) -- Already. From kabar; properly, extent of time, i.e. A great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto.">have already</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: ’ā·ḇā·ḏāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">vanished,</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: ’ên- (Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">and they will never again have</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·hem (Prep-l:: Pro-3mp) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5750.htm" title="5750: ‘ō·wḏ (Adv) -- Or rod; from uwd; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially, again, repeatedly, still, more."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5769.htm" title="5769: lə·‘ō·w·lām (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Long duration, antiquity, futurity. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2506.htm" title="2506: wə·ḥê·leq (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Portion, tract, territory. From chalaq; properly, smoothness; also an allotment.">a share</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵōl (Prep-b:: N-ms) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">in all</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: na·‘ă·śāh (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">is done</a> <a href="/hebrew/8478.htm" title="8478: ta·ḥaṯ (Prep) -- Underneath, below, instead of. From the same as Towach; the bottom; only adverbially, below, in lieu of, etc.">under</a> <a href="/hebrew/8121.htm" title="8121: haš·šā·meš (Art:: N-cs) -- From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. A notched battlement.">the sun.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/146-4.htm">Psalm 146:4</a></span><br />When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/14-21.htm">Job 14:21</a></span><br />If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm">Isaiah 38:18</a></span><br />For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a></span><br />For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/7-9.htm">Job 7:9-10</a></span><br />As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. / He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14</a></span><br />The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalm 88:10-12</a></span><br />Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah / Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? / Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/10-21.htm">Job 10:21-22</a></span><br />before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom, / to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Daniel 12:2</a></span><br />And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/115-17.htm">Psalm 115:17</a></span><br />It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/16-22.htm">Luke 16:22-23</a></span><br />One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. / In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/9-27.htm">Hebrews 9:27</a></span><br />Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/20-12.htm">Revelation 20:12-13</a></span><br />And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. / The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:13-14</a></span><br />Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. / For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a></span><br />Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice / and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">their love</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/1-8.htm">Exodus 1:8</a></b></br> Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/3-17.htm">Job 3:17,18</a></b></br> There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling; and there the weary be at rest… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/146-3.htm">Psalm 146:3,4</a></b></br> Put not your trust in princes, <i>nor</i> in the son of man, in whom <i>there is</i> no help… </p><p class="hdg">have they</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ecclesiastes/2-18.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:18-23</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ecclesiastes/6-12.htm">Ecclesiastes 6:12</a></b></br> For who knoweth what <i>is</i> good for man in <i>this</i> 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?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/6-10.htm">Ago</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/6-10.htm">Already</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-20.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/4-4.htm">Envy</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/3-14.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/8-14.htm">Happens</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-1.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-1.htm">Hatred</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-1.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/3-8.htm">Love</a> <a href="/psalms/146-4.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/5-19.htm">Portion</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm">Share</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-3.htm">Sun</a> <a href="/psalms/77-8.htm">Vanished</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-2.htm">Zeal</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/22-11.htm">Ago</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-7.htm">Already</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-13.htm">Envy</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-7.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-16.htm">Happens</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-14.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Hatred</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-8.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/songs/1-2.htm">Love</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-9.htm">Portion</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-7.htm">Share</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-9.htm">Sun</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-4.htm">Vanished</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-7.htm">Zeal</a><div class="vheading2">Ecclesiastes 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-1.htm">like things happen to good and bad</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-4.htm">there is a necessity of death unto men</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-7.htm">Comfort is all their portion in this life</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-11.htm">God's providence rules over all</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-13.htm">wisdom is better than strength</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ecclesiastes/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ecclesiastes/9.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished</b><br>This phrase reflects the finality of death and the cessation of earthly emotions and passions. In the context of Ecclesiastes, Solomon often emphasizes the temporary nature of human experiences and emotions. Love, hate, and envy are powerful motivators in life, but they cease to exist after death. This aligns with the biblical understanding that earthly life is transient (<a href="/james/4-14.htm">James 4:14</a>). The cessation of these emotions also underscores the futility of living solely for worldly passions, as they hold no eternal value. Theologically, this can be seen as a call to focus on eternal matters rather than temporal ones, echoing Jesus' teaching in <a href="/matthew/6-19.htm">Matthew 6:19-21</a> about storing treasures in heaven.<p><b>and they will never again have a share</b><br>This part of the verse highlights the irreversible separation between the living and the dead. Once a person dies, they no longer participate in the activities or experiences of the living world. This separation is a common theme in Scripture, as seen in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (<a href="/luke/16-19.htm">Luke 16:19-31</a>), where the rich man is unable to return to warn his brothers. The finality of death serves as a reminder of the importance of making wise and godly choices during one's lifetime. It also points to the hope of resurrection and eternal life for believers, as promised in <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52-54</a>.<p><b>in all that is done under the sun</b><br>The phrase "under the sun" is a recurring motif in Ecclesiastes, representing life on earth from a human perspective. It emphasizes the limitations and vanity of earthly pursuits when viewed apart from God. Solomon's exploration of life "under the sun" often leads to the conclusion that without a divine perspective, life can seem meaningless. This phrase invites readers to consider the broader biblical narrative, which offers hope and purpose beyond earthly existence. The New Testament provides a fuller revelation of life beyond "under the sun," particularly through the teachings of Jesus and the promise of eternal life (<a href="/john/3-16.htm">John 3:16</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>Traditionally considered the author of Ecclesiastes, Solomon was the king of Israel known for his wisdom. Ecclesiastes is often seen as a reflection on the meaning of life and the human condition.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation over which Solomon reigned. The cultural and religious context of Israel during Solomon's time influences the themes of Ecclesiastes.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_dead.htm">The Dead</a></b><br>The verse refers to those who have passed away, emphasizing the finality of death and the cessation of earthly emotions and activities.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_finality_of_earthly_life.htm">The Finality of Earthly Life</a></b><br><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6</a> reminds us of the finality of death and the end of earthly emotions and ambitions. This should prompt us to consider the eternal significance of our actions and relationships.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_temporary_nature_of_emotions.htm">The Temporary Nature of Emotions</a></b><br>The verse highlights that love, hate, and envy are temporary. As Christians, we should focus on cultivating eternal virtues like love and forgiveness, which have lasting value beyond this life.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/living_with_eternal_perspective.htm">Living with Eternal Perspective</a></b><br>Understanding that our earthly life is temporary should encourage us to live with an eternal perspective, prioritizing our relationship with God and our spiritual growth.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_present_actions.htm">The Importance of Present Actions</a></b><br>While the dead no longer participate in earthly activities, the living have the opportunity to make meaningful choices. We should strive to live purposefully, knowing that our actions have eternal consequences.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ecclesiastes_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ecclesiastes 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_soul_sleep.htm">What does the Bible say about soul sleep?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_ecclesiastes_contradict_jesus.htm">Why does Ecclesiastes say the dead are unconscious (Ecclesiastes 9:5), contradicting Jesus' teaching about Hell?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_hate_esau_from_birth.htm">Romans 9:13: How can a loving God claim to hate Esau from birth?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_the_mandylion_of_edessa_important.htm">What does 'chasing the wind' mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6, 7) <span class= "bld">Now.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">long ago.</span><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now</span> (<span class="accented">long ago</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>perished</span>. All the feelings which are exhibited and developed in the life of the upper world are annihilated (comp. ver. 10). Three are selected as the most potent passions, such as by their strength and activity might ideally be supposed to survive even the stroke of death. But all are now at an end. <span class="cmt_word">Neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.</span> Between the dead and the living an impassable gulf exists. The view of death here given, intensely gloomy and hopeless as it appears to be, is in conformity with other passages of the Old Testament (see <a href="/job/14-10.htm">Job 14:10-14</a>; <a href="/psalms/6-5.htm">Psalm 6:5</a>; <a href="/psalms/30-9.htm">Psalm 30:9</a>; <a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm">Isaiah 38:10-19</a>; Ecclus. 17:27, 28; Bar. 3:16-19), and that imperfect dispensation. Koheleth and his contemporaries were of those "who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (<a href="/hebrews/2-15.htm">Hebrews 2:15</a>); it was Christ who brightened the dark valley, showing the blessedness of those who die in the Lord, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel (<a href="/2_timothy/1-10.htm">2 Timothy 1:10</a>). Some expositors have felt the pessimistic utterances of this passage so deeply that they have endeavored to account for them by introducing an atheistic objector, or an intended opposition between flesh and spirit. But there is not a trace of any two such voices, and the suggestion is quite unnecessary. The writer, while believing in the continued existence of the soul, knows little and has little that is cheering to say about it's condition; and what he does say is not inconsistent with a judgment to come, though he has not yet arrived at the enunciation of this great solution. The Vulgate renders the last clause, <span class="accented">Nec habent partem in hoc saeculo et in opere quod sub sole geritur</span>. But "forever" is the correct rendering of <span class="hebrew">לְעולָם</span>, and Ginsburg concludes that Jerome's translation can be traced to the Hagadistic interpretation of the verse which restricts its scope to the wicked The author of the Book of Wisdom, writing later, takes a much more hopeful view of death and the departed (see <a href="/ecclesiastes/1-15.htm">Ecclesiastes 1:15</a>; <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-22.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:22-24</a>; <a href="/ecclesiastes/3-1.htm">Ecclesiastes 3:1</a>; 6:18; 8:17; 15:3, etc.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Their love,</span><br /><span class="heb">אַהֲבָתָ֧ם</span> <span class="translit">(’a·hă·ḇā·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_160.htm">Strong's 160: </a> </span><span class="str2">Love (noun)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their hate,</span><br /><span class="heb">שִׂנְאָתָ֛ם</span> <span class="translit">(śin·’ā·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8135.htm">Strong's 8135: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hating, hatred</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and</span><br /><span class="heb">גַּ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(gam)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1571.htm">Strong's 1571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their envy</span><br /><span class="heb">קִנְאָתָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(qin·’ā·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7068.htm">Strong's 7068: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ardor, zeal, jealousy</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have already</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּבָ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ḇār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3528.htm">Strong's 3528: </a> </span><span class="str2">Extent of time, a great while, long ago, formerly, hitherto</span><br /><br /><span class="word">vanished,</span><br /><span class="heb">אָבָ֑דָה</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇā·ḏāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and they will never again have</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵין־</span> <span class="translit">(’ên-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> </span><span class="str2">A non-entity, a negative particle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a portion</span><br /><span class="heb">וְחֵ֨לֶק</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḥê·leq)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2506.htm">Strong's 2506: </a> </span><span class="str2">Portion, tract, territory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in all</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּכֹ֥ל</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḵōl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶֽׁר־</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is done</span><br /><span class="heb">נַעֲשָׂ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(na·‘ă·śāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">under</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּ֥חַת</span> <span class="translit">(ta·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8478.htm">Strong's 8478: </a> </span><span class="str2">The bottom, below, in lieu of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the sun.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃</span> <span class="translit">(haš·šā·meš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8121.htm">Strong's 8121: </a> </span><span class="str2">The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-6.htm">OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love their hatred and their (Ecclesiast. 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