Ecclesiastes 9:2

Vanity is in all: 1 There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; 1 To the good, and to the bad; 1 Both to the pure, and to the impure; 1 Both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: 1 As is the good, so is the sinner: 1 As is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1I saw that the righteous, and the wise, 1 And their works, are in the hand of God: 1 Yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, 1 Though all are before their face. 1

3There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, 1 That there is one event to all: 1 Yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, 1 And madness is in their heart during their life, 1 And after that they go to the dead. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 24:3and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

Joshua 2:17And the men said to her, We are clear of this thy oath.

Job 9:22Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. 1

Job 21:26But they lie down in the earth together, 1 And corruption covers them. 1

Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head; 1 But the fool walks in darkness: 1 And I perceived, even I, 1 That one event shall happen to them all. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:6Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, 1 Yet he has seen no good: 1 Do not all go to one place? 1

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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