⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;
they have no further reward—and even the memory of them disappears.^[a]
6 What they loved,^[b] as well as what they hated^[c] and envied,^[d] perished long ago,
and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.^[e]

¹⁰ Whatever you find to do with your hands,^[a]
do it with all your might,
because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave,^[b]
the place where you will eventually go.^[c]

¹⁷ The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.^[a]

⁴ Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground.
On that day their plans die.^[a]

² Many of those who sleep
in the dusty ground will awake—
some to everlasting life,
and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.^[a]