Ecclesiastes 9:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.
I said, *I won't see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
*Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into Eretz-Yisra'el, for those who sought the young child's life are dead.*