Ecclesiastes 9:6
Good News Translation
Their loves, their hates, their passions, all died with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens in this world.

New Revised Standard Version
Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.

Contemporary English Version
Their loves, their hates, and their jealous feelings have all disappeared with them. They will never again take part in anything that happens on this earth.

New American Bible
For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.

their love

Exodus 1:8 In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

Job 3:17,18 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. . . .

Psalm 146:3,4 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Proverbs 10:28 The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

Matthew 2:20 Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.

have they

Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Context
Death Comes to Good and Bad
5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. 6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:10
And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 9:1
All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:

Ecclesiastes 9:5
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