Discovery BoxEcclesiastes 9:5-6 
Context9:5 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
9:6 What they loved, 2 as well as what they hated 3 and envied, 4 perished long ago,
and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth. 5
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Context9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, 6
do it with all your might,
because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, 7
the place where you will eventually go. 8
1 tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”
2 tn Heb “their love.”
3 tn Heb “their hatred.”
4 tn Heb “their envy.”
5 tn Heb “under the sun.”
6 tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”
7 tn Heb “Sheol.”
8 tn Or “where you are about to go.”
