Ecclesiastes 9:10

“All that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength, for there is no work or reckoning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ecclesiastes 9:10, word by word

your handיָדְyad

power

Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.

Where else “yad” appears
findsתִּמְצָאtimtsa

find

To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.

Where else “timtsa” appears
to doעֲשׂוֹתasot

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

Where else “asot” appears
with your strengthכֹחֲchoach

strength

Ability to do something: bodily strength or power to command.

Where else “choach” appears
workמַעֲשֶׂהmaase

work

What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.

Where else “maase” appears
or reckoningחֶשְׁבּוֹןcheshbon

sum, reckoning

Reckoning, reasoning; the result of adding things up.

Where else “cheshbon” appears
or knowledgeדַעַתdaat

knowledge

What one has learned; or a close bond with God.

Where else “daat” appears
or wisdomחָכְמָהchachma

wisdom

Knowing how to live well; it begins with revering YHWH.

Where else “chachma” appears
in Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol

Sheol

Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.

Where else “sheol” appears
are goingהֹלֵךְholech

go

To move on foot from place to place; to set out.

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The context

9Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your life of vapor that he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vapor, for that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

10 · This verse (above)

11I turned and saw under the sun that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty men the war, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the discerning riches, nor even to those who know favor, for time and occurrence befall them all.

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