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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Tout ce que ta main trouve à faire avec ta force, fais-le; car il n'y a ni oeuvre, ni pensée, ni science, ni sagesse, dans le séjour des morts, où tu vas.
KJV
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.
Florus of Lyon
Book against John Scotus
in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom" (Ecclesiastes 9:10). What benefit will it be to them to always be unhappily, to know their damnation, to wish but not be able to escape their punishment? All things given here to d…
Florus of Lyon
Book against John Scotus
se neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will be in the grave, where you are heading" (Ecclesiastes 9:10). There will be no good work to earn merit, no reason to justly excuse or satisfy, no wisdom from the illumination of truth, no knowledge from the exercise of an…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
bound, in a certain measure, to do whatever good they can, for to all without exception it is said ( Eccles. 9:10 ): "Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly." Yet there is a way of fulfilling this precept, so as to avoid sin, namely if one do what one can as required…
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