9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;

they have no further reward – and even the memory of them disappears. ¹ 

9:6 What they loved, ²  as well as what they hated ³  and envied, ⁴  perished long ago,

and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth. ⁵ 

9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, ⁶ 

do it with all your might,

because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, ⁷ 

the place where you will eventually go. ⁸