Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone has the same fate. The same fate awaits 2 righteous people and wicked, 2 the good, + 9:2 Some modern versions copy ancient versions which have the good and the bad . In this way, they make the phrase complete. Translators may decide to imitate them. 2 the clean and the unclean, 2 and the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. 1 As good people will die, 2 so also will the sinner. 1 As the one who swears will die, 2 so also will the man who fears to make an oath.

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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

1For I thought about all this in my mind to understand about the righteous and wise people and their deeds. They are all in God's hands. No one knows whether love or hate will come to someone. 1

3There is an evil fate for everything that is done under the sun, the same event happens to them all. The hearts of human beings are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live. So after that they go to the dead.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:3and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.

Joshua 2:17The men said to her, “We will be not be bound to the promises of the oath you made us swear to, if you do not do this.

Job 9:22It makes no difference, which is why I say 1 that he destroys blameless people and wicked people together. 1

Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust; 1 the worms cover them both. 1

Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man uses his eyes in his head to see where he is going, 2 but the fool walks in darkness, 1 although I know the same event happens to all of them. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:6Even if a man should live for two thousand years but does not learn to enjoy good things, he goes to the same place as everyone else. 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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