(5.) =For the living= ones =are knowing that they will die= (this is an additional reason to the above, and so may be rendered, ‘but the living are certain that they will _die_‘), =but the dead= (plural, with the article, ‘the dead persons generally’) =are not those who are knowing anything= (it is not here, be it observed, the existence of knowledge on the part of the dead which is denied, but that, from the author’s point of view, the dead are persons who do not know anything: an unevangelic sense has been given to this passage by not attending to this distinction), =and there is nothing further to them= (emphatic) which is a =hire= (or a reward in this life accruing to them as a recompense for their toil), =because forgotten= (niphal in its usual objective sense) is =their remembrance.= 6 Also their love, and their │ and then their love and their hatred, and their envy, is now │ hatred also, and their envy as perished; neither have they │ well, as far as this Present any more a portion for ever in │ is concerned, are perished; any _thing_ that is done under │ and there is no further the sun. │ participation for them in the │ age, in anything that may be │ done within this work-day world. (6.) =Moreover their love, moreover their hatred, moreover their envy= (the triple repetition of גם brings this word into prominence, equivalent to ‘their love also; yes, their hatred and envy too’) =in this present= (כבר, see chapter i. 10, references; the word occurs again in its technical sense of the ‘present state of things,’ and makes excellent sense here), =perish= (abstract ‘is a thing perished’) =in all which= (full relative) =is done under the sun.= On this follows the most touching piece of sarcasm in the whole work. There is a force and pungency about it which is very striking. 7 ¶ Go thy way, eat thy │ Go then, eat thy bread with bread with joy, and drink thy │ gladness, and drink in good wine with a merry heart; for │ heart thy wine, if in the God now accepteth thy works. │ present the Almighty prospers │ thy works. (7.) =Go, eat= (_i.e._ enjoy) in =pleasure thy bread, and drink in heart= of =good thy wine; for so in the present hath prospered the Deity thy workings.= 8 Let thy garments be always │ At every opportunity let thy white; and let thy head lack │ garments be white, and the oil no ointment. │ to thy head do not spare.