Ecclesiastes 9:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Cross References

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

Job 27:12

Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

Job 5:8

But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Psalm 119:109

My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.

Psalm 31:5

Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

Psalm 73:3

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

Proverbs 16:3

Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night,

Ecclesiastes 8:7

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Isaiah 26:12

Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.

Jeremiah 43:6

The men and the women and the children and the king's daughters, and every person whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had put under the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch, the son of Neriah;

Deuteronomy 33:3

All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.

2 Timothy 1:12

And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

1 Peter 1:5

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.