New American Standard Bible 2020

Ecclesiastes 9:5-10

5For the living know that they will die; but the dead 1do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their 2memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a 3share in all that is done under the sun.

7Go then, 4eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. 8See that your 5clothes are white all the time, and that there is no lack of 6oil on your head. 9 7Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your 8futile life which He has given you under the sun, 9all the days of your futility; for this is your 10reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun.

10Whatever your hand finds to do, 11do it with all your might; for there is no 12activity, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in 13Sheol where you are going.

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Notes

1. Ecclesiastes 9:5 Job 14:21 ↩
2. Ecclesiastes 9:5 Ps 88:12; Eccl 1:11; 2:16; 8:10; Is 26:14 ↩
3. Ecclesiastes 9:6 Eccl 2:10; 3:22 ↩
4. Ecclesiastes 9:7 Eccl 2:24; 8:15 ↩
5. Ecclesiastes 9:8 Rev 3:4 ↩
6. Ecclesiastes 9:8 Ps 23:5 ↩
7. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Lit See ↩
8. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Eccl 6:12; 7:15 ↩
9. Ecclesiastes 9:9 all...your futility not found in some ancient versions ↩
10. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Eccl 2:10 ↩
11. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Eccl 11:6; Rom 12:11; Col 3:23 ↩
12. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Eccl 9:5 ↩
13. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Gen 37:35; Job 21:13; Is 38:10 ↩

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