Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Their love ... hatred ... envy, is now perished - referring to Ecclesiastes 9:1, where see the note. Not that these cease in a future world absolutely (Ezekiel 32:27; Revelation 22:11); but, as the end of this verse shows, relatively to persons and things in this world. Man's love and hatred can no longer be exercised for good or evil in the same way as here; but the fruits of them remain. What he is found at death, he remains forever. "Envy," too, marks the wicked, as referred to, since it was therewith that they assailed the righteous (Ecclesiastes 9:1, note). Neither have they anymore a portion. Their "portion" was "in this life" (Psalms 17:14); that they now 'cannot have anymore.' The whole (Ecclesiastes 9:4-6) may, however, not be restricted to the wicked, but may be the language of carnal reason as to all the good and the bad alike (note, Ecclesiastes 9:4).