Ecclesiastes 4:9

Labor is Beneficial When Its Rewards Are Shared

4:9 Two people are better than one,

because they can reap ¹  more benefit ²  from their labor.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

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. ³ 

[4:9]  ¹ tn Heb “they have.”

[4:9]  ² tn Heb “a good reward.”

[9:5]  ³ tn Heb “for their memory is forgotten.” The pronominal suffix is an objective genitive, “memory of them.”