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Ecclesiastes 3:22

Context

3:22 So I perceived there is nothing better than for people 1  to enjoy their work, 2 

because that is their 3  reward;

for who can show them what the future holds? 4 

Ecclesiastes 9:5

Context

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. 5 

1 tn Heb “man.”

2 tn Heb “his works.”

3 tn Heb “his.”

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

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



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