Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 9:5

Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 9:5 - 9:5

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Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 9:5 - 9:5

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9:1 - 9:1
9:2 - 9:2
9:3 - 9:3
9:4 - 9:4
9:5 - 9:5
9:6 - 9:6
9:7 - 9:7
9:8 - 9:8
9:9 - 9:9
9:10 - 9:10
9:11 - 9:11
9:12 - 9:12
9:14 - 9:14
9:15 - 9:15
9:17 - 9:17

the dead know not any thing. See and Compare Ecc_9:10. Psa_6:5; Psa_30:9; Psa_31:17; Psa_88:11. Isa_38:18, Isa_38:19.

a reward = any advantage [to them].

memory = the faculty of remembering. See note on "them", below.

them. The Hebrew suffix "them" must be taken as the subject in all the four nouns alike. As in Ecc_9:6, the possessive pronoun "their" is, and must be, taken alike in each case.

is forgotten = ceases to exist, as in Psa_77:9, where it is parallel with "clean gone for ever "and "evermore", and in the next verse here(Ecc_9:6), where it stands parallel with "perished" and "for ever".