Ecclesiastes 9:1

English Standard Version 2016

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; both are before him.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:3

Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,

1 Peter 1:5

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

Ecclesiastes 8:14

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

Job 12:10

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

2 Timothy 1:12

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

Isaiah 26:12

O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.

Proverbs 16:3

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

Psalm 31:5

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

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.

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 8:16

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

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

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 evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but 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

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Job 5:8

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

Psalm 119:109

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

Ecclesiastes 9:6

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

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.

Job 27:12

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

Ecclesiastes 8:7

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