Pengkhotbah 9:5-6

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 

9:6 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 

Pengkhotbah 11:3

11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth,

and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”

[9:6]  ² tn Heb “their love.”

[9:6]  ³ tn Heb “their hatred.”

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “their envy.”

[9:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “under the sun.”