"Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any…" — Ecclesiastes 9:6

Ecclesiastes 9:6 · 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.”

— Ecclesiastes 9:6

Verse 5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Verse 7

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Ecclesiastes 9 — Context

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Cross References

Psalms 146:3-4

Put not your trust in princes, {nor} in the son of man, in whom {there is} no help. {help: or, salvation}

Matthew 2:20

And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

Job 3:17-18

There the wicked cease {from} troubling; and there the weary be at rest. {weary: Heb. wearied in strength}

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous {shall be} gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-23

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. {taken: Heb. laboured}