Ecclesiastes 9:6

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
  • Eccl 2:18-23 : 18 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. 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. 20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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?
  • Matt 2:20 : 20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
  • Exod 1:8 : 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
  • Job 3:17-18 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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    3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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    16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 1:9-11
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    9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

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    16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

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    18 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.

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    2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

    3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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    12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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