Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is 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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

2All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner, and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:21And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Job 15:16How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!

Psalms 51:5(51-7) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.

Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:2-4

Mysteries in Providence. 1 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. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 3 This… Read the whole commentary →

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