Ecclesiastes 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath departs, he returns 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 Yes, I hated all my labor that I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Matt 2:20 : 20 Saying, Arise, take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for those who sought the young child's life are dead.
  • Exod 1:8 : 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
  • Job 3:17-18 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

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    5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, 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.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 1:9-11
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    9The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    10Is there anything of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in ancient times, which were before us.

    11There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those who will come after.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man rules over another to his own harm.

    10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 2:16-18
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    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yes, I hated all my labor that I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
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    9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.

    10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.

  • Eccl 4:2-4
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    2Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

    4Again, I considered all the toil and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

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    5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

    6Yes, even if he lives a thousand years twice over, yet has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

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    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

    21Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.

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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

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    7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    22For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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    14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore, You have visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 3:14-15
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    14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.

    15That which is, has already been; and that which is to be, has already been; and God requires an account of the past.

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  • Eccl 6:9
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  • Eccl 8:14-15
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    14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

    15So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

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    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

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    13This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.