Księga Kaznodziei 9:5

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Bo żywi wiedzą, że umrą, umarli już nic nie wiedzą i nikt im za nic nie odpłaci, gdyż pamięć o nich przepada.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Abowiem ci, którzy żywą, wiedzą, iż pomrzeć mają, ale ci, co pomarli, ni o czym nie wiedzą i nie mają już dalej żadnej zapłaty, gdyż pamiątka ich przyszła w zapamiętanie.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Boć ci, co żyją, wiedzą, że umrzeć mają; ale umarli o niczem nie wiedzą, i nie mają więcej żadnej zapłaty, gdyż w zapamiętanie przyszła pamiątka ich.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Zaprawdę, żywym jest wiadomo, że umrą; zaś zmarli nie wiedzą o niczym i już nic nie zyskują, nawet pamięć o nich idzie w zapomnienie.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Boć ci, co żyją, wiedzą, że umrzeć mają; ale umarli o niczem nie wiedzą, i nie mają więcej żadnej zapłaty, gdyż w zapamiętanie przyszła pamiątka ich.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Żyjący bowiem wiedzą, że umrą, ale umarli o niczym nie wiedzą i nie mają już żadnej zapłaty, gdyż pamięć o nich uległa zapomnieniu.

Biblia Warszawska
Wiedzą bowiem żywi, że muszą umrzeć, lecz umarli nic nie wiedzą i już nie ma dla nich żadnej zapłaty, gdyż ich imię idzie w zapomnienie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the living: Ecclesiastes 7:2, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27

the dead: Job 14:21, Psalms 6:5, Psalms 88:10, Psalms 88:11, Isaiah 63:16

for the: Ecclesiastes 2:16, Ecclesiastes 8:10, Job 7:8-10, Psalms 109:15, Isaiah 26:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 5:5 - and he died Deuteronomy 31:14 - that thou must die 2 Samuel 14:14 - we must Psalms 59:11 - Slay Psalms 88:12 - in the land Psalms 89:48 - What Ecclesiastes 9:10 - for Isaiah 38:11 - General Luke 20:32 - died 1 Corinthians 15:55 - is thy victory

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the living know that they shall die,.... Death is certain, it is the demerit of sin, the appointment of God and the time of it is fixed; it may be known that it will be, from the word of God that assures it, from all experience which confirms it, and from the decline of nature, and the seeds of death in men. This "the living" know that live corporeally, even the wicked themselves, though they put the evil day far from them; and so good men, that live spiritually, being quickened by the Spirit and grace of God, and live a life of faith and holiness; they know they shall die, though Christ died for them, and has abolished death, as a punishment and a curse, and took away its sting, and made it a blessing; wherefore it is desirable to them, as being for their good: but there are some things about death they ordinarily know not; they do not know the time of their death; nor the place where they shall die; nor of what death they shall die; nor in what circumstances, both outward and inward: of these the Targum understands the passage;

"for the righteous know that if they sin, they shall be reckoned as dead men in the world to come, therefore they keep their ways, and sin not; but if they sin, they return by repentance;''

but the dead know not anything; this is not to be understood of their separate spirits, and of the things of the other world; for the righteous dead know much, their knowledge is greatly increased; they know, as they are known; they know much of God in Christ, of his perfections, purposes, covenant, grace, and love; they know much of Christ, of his person, offices, and glory, and see him as he is; they know much of the Gospel, and the mysteries of it; and of angels, and the spirits of just men, they now converse with; and of the glories and happiness of the heavenly state; even they know abundantly more than they did in this life: and the wicked dead, in their separate spirits, know there is a God that judgeth; that their souls are immortal; that there is a future state; indeed they know and feel the torments of hell, the worm that never dies, and the fire that is not quenched: but this is to be interpreted of their bodily senses now extinct, and of worldly things they have now nothing to do with; they know not any thing that is done in this world, nor how it fares with their children and friends they have left behind them; see Job 14:21; nor therefore are they to be prayed unto, and used as mediators with God. The Targum is,

"and sinners know not any good, so that they do not make their works good while they live; and they know not any good in the world to come;''

neither have they any more a reward; not but that there will be rewards in a future state, in which everyone shall have his own reward; there will be a reward for the righteous; they will receive the reward of the inheritance, though it will be, not of debt, but of grace; and particularly in the millennium state, Psalms 58:11; and every transgression of the wicked will receive a just recompence of reward; to whom the reward of their hands will be given them, Hebrews 2:2; but the sense is, that after death there will be no enjoyment of a man's labours; he will not have the use, profit, and advantage of them, but his heirs that succeed him, Ecclesiastes 4:9;

for the memory of them is forgotten; not the memory of the righteous with God, for whom a book of remembrance is written, and whose names are written in heaven; these are had in everlasting remembrance, and their memory blessed: but the memory of wicked men; who, though they take pains to perpetuate their names, which they give to their lands, yet the Lord causes their memory to cease, and they are forgotten in the place where they lived; not only among the righteous, as the Targum, but among others, Isaiah 26:14; even among those that enjoy the fruit of their labour; they will scarce think of them any more, or, however, in a little time they will be quite forgotten by them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Ecclesiastes 8:12, note; Ecclesiastes 8:14, note. The living are conscious that there is a future before them: but the dead are unconscious; they earn nothing, receive nothing, even the memory of them soon disappears; they are no longer excited by the passions which belong to people in this life; their share in its activity has ceased. Solomon here describes what he sees, not what he believes; there is no reference here to the fact or the mode of the existence of the soul in another world, which are matters of faith.

The last clause of Ecclesiastes 9:6 indicates that the writer confines his observations on the dead to their portion in, or relation to, this world.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Now - Rather: “long ago.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 9:5. The living know that they shall die — This is so self-evident that none can doubt it; and therefore all that have this conviction should prepare for death and eternal blessedness.

But the dead know not any thing — Cut off from life, they know nothing of what passes under the sun. Their day of probation is ended, and therefore they can have no farther reward in living a holy life; nor can they be liable to any farther punishment for crimes in a state of probation, that being ended.