Ecclesiastes 9:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

After people are dead, their love, hate, and jealousy are all gone. And they will never again share in what happens on earth.

Cross References

Matthew 2:20

and said, “Get up! Take the child with his mother and go to Israel. Those who were trying to kill the child are now dead.”

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who knows what is best for people during their short life on earth? Their life passes like a shadow. No one can tell them what will happen later.

Proverbs 10:28

What good people hope for brings happiness, but what the wicked hope for brings destruction.

Exodus 1:8

Then a new king began to rule Egypt. He did not know Joseph.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Anything my eyes saw and wanted, I got for myself. My mind was pleased with everything I did. And this happiness was the reward for all my hard work.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that the best thing people can do is to enjoy what they do, because that is all they have. Besides, no one can help another person see what will happen in the future.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

I thought about all this very carefully. I saw that God controls what happens to the good and wise people and what they do. People don’t know if they will be loved or hated, and they don’t know what will happen in the future.

Isaiah 38:11

So I said, “I will not see the Lord YAH in the land of the living again. I will not see the people living on earth.