Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
love	אַהֲבָתָ֧ם 'a.ha.va.Tam	H160	affection (in a good or a bad sense) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
hatred	שִׂנְאָתָ֛ם sin.'a.Tam	H8135	hate · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
envy	קִנְאָתָ֖ם kin.'a.Tam	H7068	jealousy or envy · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
now	כְּבָ֣ר ke.Var	H3528	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
perished	אָבָ֑דָה 'a.Va.dah	H6	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
portion	וְחֵ֨לֶק ve.Che.lek	H2506	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
ever	לְעוֹלָ֔ם le.'o.Lam	H5769	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
done	נַעֲשָׂ֖ה na.'a.Sah	H6213	to do or make · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
sun	הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ ha.Sha.mesh	H8121	the sun · definite article + noun, common both genders singular absolute

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Cross-references

Psalms 146:3-4 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Job 3:17-18 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what…
Matthew 2:20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s lif…
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:4-10

Solomon, in a fret, had praised the dead more than the living (Ecc 4:2); but here, considering the advantages of life to prepare for death and make sure the hope of a better life, he seems to be of another mind. I. He shows the advantages which the living have above those that are dead, Ecc 9:4-6. 1. While there is life there is hope. Dum spiro, spero - While I breathe, I hope. It is the privilege of the living that they are joined to the living, in relation, commerce, and conversation, and, while they are so, there is hope. If a man's condition be, upon any account, bad, there is hope it will be amended. If the heart be full of evil, and madness be in it, yet while there is life there is ho…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 9:6

love, and . . . hatred, &c.--(referring to Ecc 9:1; see on Ecc 9:1). Not that these cease in a future world absolutely (Eze 32:27; Rev 22:11); but as the end of this verse shows, relatively to persons and things in this world. Man's love and hatred can no longer be exercised for good or evil in the same way as here; but the fruits of them remain. What he is at death he remains for ever. "Envy," too, marks the wicked as referred to, since it was therewith that they assailed the righteous (see on Ecc 9:1). portion--Their "portion" was "in this life" (Psa 17:14), that they now "cannot have any more."

John Gill on Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished,.... Not that the separate spirits of the dead are without their affections, or these unexercised; the spirits of just men made perfect will love God and Christ, and angels, and good men, and all that is good, more intensely; love will continue after this life, and be in its height, and therefore said to be the greatest grace, 1 Corinthians 13:13; they will hate sin, Satan, and all the enemies of Christ, and be filled with zeal for his glory; so the word (z) for envy may be rendered; see Revelation 6:9; and the spirits of the wicked dead will still continue to love sin, and hate the Lord, and envy the happiness of the saints;…

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Dictionary and topics

Ashdod · Prophecies concerning — Prophecies concerning
Bastard · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Dead (People) · UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Dead, The · Characterised by: Absence of all human passions — Characterised by: Absence of all human passions
Hades · 2. The realm (state) of the — 2. The realm (state) of the

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:4-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 9:6

John Gill on Ecclesiastes 9:6

Dictionary and topics

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:4-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 9:6

John Gill on Ecclesiastes 9:6

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 9:6