Ecclesiastes 9:6

New Century Version

After people are dead, they can no longer love or hate or envy. They will never again share in what happens here on earth.

Cross References

Exodus 1:8

Then a new king began to rule Egypt, who did not know who Joseph was.

Proverbs 10:28

A good person can look forward to happiness, but an evil person can expect nothing.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Anything I saw and wanted, I got for myself; I did not miss any pleasure I desired. I was pleased with everything I did, and this pleasure was the reward for all my hard work.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

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

Ecclesiastes 6:12

People have only a few useless days of life on the earth; their short life passes like a shadow. Who knows what is best for them while they live? Who can tell them what the future will bring?

Ecclesiastes 9:1

I thought about all this and tried to understand it. I saw that God controls good people and wise people and what they do, but no one knows if they will experience love or hate.

Isaiah 38:11

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

Matthew 2:20

The angel said, “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, because the people who were trying to kill the child are now dead.”