Ecclesiastes 9:6 BSB

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Also their love, and their hatred - It is evident that he speaks here of the ignorance, want of power, etc., of the dead, in reference only to this life. And though they have no more a portion under the sun, yet he does not intimate that they have none anywhere else. A man threatens to conquer kingdoms, etc. He dies; what are his threats?

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Man's love and hatred can no longer be exercised for good or evil in the same way as here; but the fruits of them remain. What he is at death he remains for ever. "Envy," too, marks the wicked as referred to, since it was therewith that they assailed the righteous (see on Ec 9:1). portion--Their "portion" was "in this life" (Ps 17:14), that they now "cannot have any more."

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּ֣ם	gam	both	H1571 →
אַהֲבָתָ֧ם	'a.ha.va.Tam	love their	H160 →
גַּם־	gam-	as well as	H1571 →
שִׂנְאָתָ֛ם	sin.'a.Tam	hatred their	H8135 →
גַּם־	gam-	as well as	H1571 →
קִנְאָתָ֖ם	kin.'a.Tam	envy their	H7068 →
כְּבָ֣ר	ke.Var	already	H3528 →
אָבָ֑דָה	'a.Va.dah	it has perished	H6 →
וְחֵ֨לֶק	ve.Che.lek	and a portion	H2506 →
אֵין־	'ein-	not	H369 →
לָהֶ֥ם	la.Hem	[belongs] to <the> them
עוֹד֙	'Od	again	H5750 →
לְעוֹלָ֔ם	le.'o.Lam	for ever	H5769 →
בְּכֹ֥ל	be.Khol	in all	H3605 →
אֲשֶֽׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
נַעֲשָׂ֖ה	na.'a.Sah	it is done	H6213 →
תַּ֥חַת	Ta.chat	under	H8478 →
הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃	ha.Sha.mesh	the sun	H8121 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him…
leads to
- James 4:14
  You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Job 14:2
  Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Ecclesiastes 3:22
  I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
- Lamentations 3:24–27
  “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
- Psalms 144:4
  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Through
Matthew 2:20
“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”
leads to
- Exodus 4:19
  Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
- Matthew 2:13
  When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I…
- 1 Kings 12:1–3
  Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

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