Ecclesiastes 9:4-10
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Surely whosoever is joined to all the living, there is hope: for it is better to a [a]living dog, than to a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing at all: neither have they anymore a reward: for their remembrance is forgotten.
6 Also their love and their hatred, and their envy is now perished, and they have no more portion forever, in all that is done under the sun.
7 Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful heart: for God now [b]accepteth thy works.
8 At all times let thy garments be [c]white, and let not oil be lacking upon thine head.
9 [d](A)Rejoice with the wife whom thou hast loved all the days of the life of thy vanity, which God hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy travail wherein thou laborest under the sun.
10 All that thine hand shall find to do, do it with all thy power: for there is neither work nor invention, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:4 He noteth the Epicureans and carnal men, which made their belly their god, and had no pleasure, but in this life, wishing rather to be an abased and vile person in this life, than a man of authority, and so to die, which is meant by the dog and lion.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7 They flatter themselves to be in God’s favor, because they have all things in abundance.
- Ecclesiastes 9:8 Rejoice, be merry, and spare for no cost, thus speak the wicked belly-gods.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 Hebrew, regard the life.
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