Ecclesiastes 9:1

I had my mind consider all this. Wise and good people and everything they do are in God's hands. Love or hate—who knows what will happen to 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

2Yet we all share the same destiny—those who do right, those who do evil, the good, the religiously-observant and those that are not, those who sacrifice and those who don't. Those who do good are as those who sin, those who make vows to God are as those who don't.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:3How much you love the people; you hold all the holy ones in your hand. They sit down at your feet to listen to your words:

2 Samuel 15:25Then the king told Zadok, “Take the Ark of God back to the city. If I find the Lord approves of me, he will bring me back and let me see both the Ark and his Tent again.

Job 12:10He gives life to every living thing, life to all humankind.

Psalms 10:14But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. Take it into your own hands. The helpless trust in you; you defend the orphans.

Psalms 37:5Entrust all that you do to the Lord. Place your confidence in him and he will help you.

Psalms 73:11“God won't find out,” they say. “The Most High doesn't even know what's going on!”

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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