Ecclesiastes 9:6

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.
  • Eccl 2:18-23 : 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of 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 began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 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?
  • Matt 2:20 : 20 "Arise and 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 didn't know Joseph.
  • Job 3:17-18 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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    5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1 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.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is an evil in all that is 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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    16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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

    10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

    11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9 All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

    10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 2:16-18
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    16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

    17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

    18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
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    9 Live 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 life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

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

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

    4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12 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?

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

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    5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

    6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

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    3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 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?

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

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

  • Ps 103:16
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    16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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    7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

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

    23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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    14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

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

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  • Eccl 4:8
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    8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

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    9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 8:14-15
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    14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous 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.

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

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

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    13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

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    8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

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