Ecclesiastes 9:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

FOR ALL this I took to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) and the wise and their works are in the hands of God. Whether it is to be love or hatred no man knows; all that is before them.

American Standard Version (1901)

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

Common English Bible

So I considered all of this carefully, examining all of it: The righteous and the wise and their deeds are in God’s hand, along with both love and hate. People don’t know anything that’s ahead of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:

Ecclesiastes 9:1 Cross References

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Job 27:12

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Job 5:8

“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

Psalm 10:14

Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayst take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 119:109

I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget thy law.

Psalm 31:5

Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 16:3

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep;

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 26:12

O Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, thou hast wrought for us all our works.

Jeremiah 43:6

the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Yea, he loved his people; all those consecrated to him were in his hand; so they followed in thy steps, receiving direction from thee,

2 Timothy 1:12

and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

1 Peter 1:5

who by God's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Samuel 2:9

“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.