Ecclesiastes 9:3

This thing is the worste among alle thingis, that ben don vndur the sunne, that the same thingis bifallen to alle men; wherfor and the hertis of the sones of men ben fillid with malice and dispisyng in her lijf; and aftir these thingis thei schulen be led doun to hellis.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2But alle thingis ben kept vncerteyn in to tyme to comynge; for alle thingis bifallen euenli to a iust man and to a wickid man, to a good man and to an yuel man, to a cleene man and to an vnclene man, to a man offrynge offryngis and sacrifices, and to a man dispisynge sacrifices; as a good man, so and a synnere; as a forsworun man, so and he that greetli swerith treuthe.

4No man is, that lyueth euere, and that hath trist of this thing; betere is a quik dogge than a deed lioun.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:21And the Lord sauerede the odour of swetnesse, and seide to hym, Y schal no more curse the erthe for men, for the wit and thouyt of mannus herte ben redi in to yuel fro yong wexynge age; therfor Y schal no more smyte ech lyuynge soule as Y dide;

Job 15:16How myche more a man abhomynable and vnprofitable, that drynkith wickidnesse as water?

Psalms 51:5Thou louedist malice more than benygnite; `thou louedist wickidnesse more than to speke equite.

Proverbs 14:32A wickid man is put out for his malice; but a iust man hopith in his deth.

Ecclesiastes 2:14The iyen of a wijs man ben in his heed, a fool goith in derknessis; and Y lernede, that o perisching was of euer either.

Ecclesiastes 8:11Forsothe for the sentence is not brouyt forth soone ayens yuele men, the sones of men doon yuels with outen ony drede.

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