Ecclesiastes 9:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ This evil is in all that is done under the sun: one fate comes to all. Also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Common English Bible

³ This is the sad thing about all that happens under the sun: the same fate awaits everyone. Moreover, the human heart is full of evil; people’s minds are full of madness while they are alive, and afterward they die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Genesis 8:21

1 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Job 15:16

1 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 21:26

1 Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Job 9:22

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

Psalm 51:5

2 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

Psalm 64:7

Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,

Proverbs 14:32

A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

Ecclesiastes 12:7

4 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

1 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

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

Ecclesiastes 7:25

Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

Ecclesiastes 8:11

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 9:11

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

Ecclesiastes 9:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

1 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Jeremiah 16:12

0 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and there are no gods?

Jeremiah 17:10

8 Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.

Jeremiah 17:9

7 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

Luke 15:17

5 Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:

Luke 6:11

9 And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.

Acts 12:23

And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesu:

Acts 26:11

9 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not incredulous to the heavenly vision:

Acts 26:24

2 And Agrippa said to Festus: This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

Titus 3:3

2 When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.

2 Peter 2:16

Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,