Ecclesiasteschapter 9
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2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Chapter summary
'All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked': this is the evil in all that is done under the sun.
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Chapter summary
'All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked': this is the evil in all that is done under the sun.
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'All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked': this is the evil in all that is done under the sun. But a living dog is better than a dead lion, for the living know that they shall die. Therefore the fullest statement of the gift: eat thy bread with joy; let thy garments be always white; 'live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest… Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Time and chance happen to them all. And one poor wise man delivered a city, yet no man remembered him: 'wisdom is better than strength,' though despised.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
Poetry · Solomon — Ecclesiastes overview
- A. 1–6 One Event to All: the Living Know That They Shall Die
- B. 7–12 Eat Thy Bread With Joy; Time and Chance Happen to All
- C. 13–18 The Poor Wise Man Who Saved the City, and No One Remembered Him
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
Ecclesiastes 22 verses
- Ecclesiastes 2:10Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Read Ecclesiastes 2 →
Ecclesiastes 82 verses
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
- Read Ecclesiastes 8 →
Proverbs 212 verses
- Proverbs 21:22A wise man scales the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.
- Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
- Read Proverbs 21 →
Joshua 72 verses
- Joshua 7:1The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.
- Joshua 7:11Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
- Read Joshua 7 →
4 more chapters this one speaks with
Deuteronomy 331 verse
- Deuteronomy 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
- Read Deuteronomy 33 →
Malachi 31 verse
- Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Read Malachi 3 →
Job 91 verse
- Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Read Job 9 →
Jeremiah 171 verse
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Read Jeremiah 17 →
Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.