OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Ecclesiastes 9:10

World English Bible Updated

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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Ecclesiastes 9:7–13

7

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

8

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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 happen to them all.

12

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

13

I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

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  1. Sheol is the place of the dead.

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