Ecclesiastes 9:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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 who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who fears and shuns an oath.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

² Everything is the same for everyone. The same fate awaits the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the pure and the impure, those who sacrifice and those who don’t sacrifice. The good person is like the wrongdoer; the same holds for those who make solemn pledges and those who are afraid to swear.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.

Ecclesiastes 9:2 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

That I may make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Job 9:22

7 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Psalm 73:3

0 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighhour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

5 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

8 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

0 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Jeremiah 43:6

The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

Malachi 3:15

Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Malachi 3:18

Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren.

Malachi 3:5

3 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

1 Samuel 14:26

1 So they smote that day the Philistines from Machmas to Ailon. And the people were wearied exceedingly.