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Ecclesiastes 9:10

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9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands,30

do it with all your might,

because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave,31

the place where you will eventually go.32

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Footnotes

  1. 30 Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”
  2. 31 Heb “Sheol.”
  3. 32 Or “where you are about to go.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

NLTNew Living Translation

Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Whatever your hand finds to do—do it with all your might; for in Sheol—where you are going—no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

KJV 1900King James Version

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.