Either Ecclesiastes is inspired or not. You cant have it both ways. If inspired, it is the inerrant word of God. If not, your Bible is corrupt and the whole falls with the part. If inspired, then the dead truly know not anything, or Holy Spirit lied.
@vienne
As already pointed out the term "under the sun" appears 29 times in the book of Ecclesiastes so that people wouldn't get the wrong ideas. It was helpful to me when I was examining the WT "proof scripture" to view all 29 instances in order, at the same time. Here they are for your perusal:
Ecc_1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecc_1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecc_1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecc_2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecc_2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecc_2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecc_2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Ecc_2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Ecc_2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecc_3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecc_4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecc_4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecc_4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Ecc_4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
Ecc_5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Ecc_5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecc_6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecc_6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecc_8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecc_8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Ecc_8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Ecc_9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecc_9:6 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.
Ecc_9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Ecc_9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecc_9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Ecc_10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
After reading all these, it is obvious that the scope and primary view of Ecclesiastes is "under the sun", "this life", this physical body etc.
A dead body, rotting under the sun, in "this life" knows nothing at all....just like scripture says in Eccl. 9: 9 "that is thy portion in this life"
But your consciousness is eternal, just like dozens of other scriptures and especially Jesus himself confirms.
By the way, you never answered why you don't except the limited scope of Ecclesiastes 10:19 - "money is the answer for everthing" while rejecting the limited scope of the statement of "the dead know nothing at all"?
The bible is a not a buffet where a person can just willy nilly decide which scriptures to put on their plate and which ones to reject because they don't seem palatable.
