Ecclesiastes Chapter 9

Like things happen to the godly and ungodly

9:1 Because all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteousהַצַּדִּיקִים‎
Transliteration haṣṣadîqîm To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). Just, justice, rightness just:—just, lawful, righteous (man), righteousness – For more info click here, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.
9:2 All [things come] alike to all: there is one event to the righteousלַצַּדִּיק‎
Transliteration laṣṣadîq – To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). Just, justice, rightness just:—just, lawful, righteous (man), righteousness – For more info click here, and to the wicked; to the goodלַטּוֹב
Transliteration: laṭṭôḇ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that doesn’t sacrifice: like the goodכַּטּוֹב
Transliteration: kaṭṭôḇ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here, so the sinnerכַּחֹטֶא
Transliteration: kaḥōṭe’ – sin, guilt for sin, punishment for sin, a crime or its penalty, offense, (punishment of) sin – For more info click here; and he that swears (an oath), like he that fears an oath.
9:3 This [is] an evilרָע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evilרָע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: because a living dog is better than a dead lion.
9:5 Because the living know that they shall die: but the dead don’t know anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Enjoying the good life

9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; because Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here now accepts your works.
9:8 Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your meaningless life, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility: because that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you takes under the sun.
9:10 whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your strength; because there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, wherever you go.
9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.
9:12 Because man also knows not his time: like the fish that are taken in an evil net, and like the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Wisdom better than strength

9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:
9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: however the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words aren’t heard.
9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.
9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.