Pengkhotbah 9:5

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 

Pengkhotbah 9:10

9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, ² 

do it with all your might,

because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, ³ 

the place where you will eventually go. ⁴ 

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

[9:10]  ² tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”

[9:10]  ³ tn Heb “Sheol.”

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Or “where you are about to go.”