ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

ecclesiastes 9:6 Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

6. love, and . . . hatred, &c.--(referring to Ec 9:1; see on Ec 9:1). Not that these cease in a future world absolutely (Eze 32:27; Re 22:11); but as the end of this verse shows, relatively to persons and things in this world. Man's love and hatred can no longer be exercised for good or evil in the same way as here; but the fruits of them remain. What he is at death he remains for ever. "Envy," too, marks the wicked as referred to, since it was therewith that they assailed the righteous (see on Ec 9:1).
portion--Their "portion" was "in this life" (Ps 17:14), that they now "cannot have any more."

ecclesiastes 9:6 Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

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