Ecclesiastes 9:1

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

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In The King James Version

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

In Context

2All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:3Yea, he loves the people. All his sanctified are in thy hand, and they sat down at thy feet. He shall receive from thy words.

2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favor in the eyes of LORD he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation.

Job 12:10in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Psalms 10:14Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 37:5Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

Psalms 73:11And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:1

Solomon, in this chapter, for a further proof of the vanity of this world, gives us four observations which he had made upon a survey of the state of the children of men in it:—I. He observed that commonly as to outward things, good and bad men fare much alike, ver. 1-3 . II. That death puts a final period to all our employments and enjoyments in this world ( ver. 4-6 ), whence he infers that it is our wisdom to enjoy the comforts of life and mind the business of life, while it lasts, ver. 7-10 . III. That God's… Read the whole commentary →

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