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Ecc 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

their love		Exd 1:8; Job 3:17,18; Psa 146:3,4; Pro 10:28; Mat 2:20
have they		Ecc 2:18-23; Ecc 6:12

Correlating Passages

their love

	Exd 1:8	Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
	Job 3:17	There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
	Job 3:18	[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
	Psa 146:3	Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
	Psa 146:4	His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
	Pro 10:28	The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
	Mat 2:20	Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

have they

	Ecc 2:18	Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
	Ecc 2:19	And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.
	Ecc 2:20	Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
	Ecc 2:21	For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
	Ecc 2:22	For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
	Ecc 2:23	For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
	Ecc 6:12	For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 9:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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