Verse 5
the dead know not any thing. See and Compare Ecclesiastes 9:10 . Psalms 6:5 ; Psalms 30:9 ; Psalms 31:17 ; Psalms 88:11 .Isaiah 38:18 , Isaiah 38:19 .
a reward = any advantage [to them].
memory = the faculty of remembering. See note on "them", below.
them. The Hebrew suffix "them" must be taken as the subject in all the four nouns alike. As in Ecclesiastes 9:6 , the possessive pronoun "their" is, and must be, taken alike in each case.
is forgotten = ceases to exist, as in Psalms 77:9 , where it is parallel with "clean gone for ever "and "evermore", and in the next verse here(Ecclesiastes 9:6 ), where it stands parallel with "perished" and "for ever".
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