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. 1
9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, 2
do it with all your might,
because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, 3
the place where you will eventually go. 4
1 tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”
2 tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”
3 tn Heb “Sheol.”
4 tn Or “where you are about to go.”