Ecclesiastes 9:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished; neither have they any more a share in anything that is done under the sun. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Their love and their hate, as well as their zeal, are already long gone. They will never again have a stake in all that happens under the sun. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil.
So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?
For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?
All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them
I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.
“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”