Ecclesiastes 9:1

A Conservative Version

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. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:3

Yea, he loves the people. All his sanctified are in thy hand, and they sat down at thy feet. He shall receive from thy words.

1 Peter 1:5

men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that

Job 12:10

in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

2 Timothy 1:12

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

Isaiah 26:12

LORD, thou will ordain peace for us, for thou have also wrought all our works for us.

Proverbs 16:3

Commit thy works to LORD, and thy purposes shall be established.

Psalm 31:5

Into thy hand I commend my spirit. Thou have redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness, for by strength no man shall prevail.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. 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 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Psalm 73:3

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

Psalm 10:14

Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

Job 5:8

But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

Psalm 119:109

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget thy law.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Jeremiah 43:6

the men, and the women, and the sons, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son o

Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?