Ecclesiastes 9:1

I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face.

Brenton Septuagint

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

2Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:3And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones are under thy hands; and they are under thee; and he received of his words

2 Samuel 15:25And the king said to Sadoc, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I should find favour in the eyes of the Lord, then will he bring me back, and he will shew me it and its beauty.

Job 12:10Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

Psalms 37:5For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

Psalms 73:11Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

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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