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Ecclesiastes 9:5
New English Translation
Ecclesiastes 9:5
New English Translation
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]
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”
Ecclesiastes 9:10
New English Translation
Ecclesiastes 9:10
New English Translation
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]
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 tn Heb “Sheol.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 tn Or “where you are about to go.”
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