Ecclesiastes 3:22

3:22 So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work,

because that is their reward;

for who can show them what the future holds?

Ecclesiastes 9:5

9:5 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.


tn Heb “man.”

tn Heb “his works.”

tn Heb “his.”

tn Heb “what will be after him” (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV) or “afterward” (cf. NJPS).

tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”