Ecclesiastes 9:1

Modern English Version

All this I took to heart, to examine all these matters, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, no person knows everything that will come before these people.

Cross References

Job 12:10

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

Job 27:12

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

Job 5:8

“Indeed, I would appeal to God, and before God I would set forth my case,

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it with Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 119:109

My life is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 31:5

Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O  Lord, God of truth.

Psalm 73:3

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

Proverbs 16:3

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

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know the folly of ideas, and to know foolish behavior. I know that this as well is like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool increases his words. No one knows what is to come; who can tell him what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen everything in my vain life: There is the righteous person who dies in his righteousness; and there is the wicked person who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

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

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is another vanity that takes place on earth: there are righteous people who are treated according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the deeds of the righteous. I observed that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to observe the business that is done on earth, while day and night there is no sleep for one’s eyes,

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what is to be, for who can declare to him what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, hatred, and envy have already perished; they will never again have any share in all that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 26:12

Lord, You will ordain peace for us, for You also have done all our works for us.

Jeremiah 43:6

even men, and women, and children, 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 of Neriah.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely, He loved the people; all His holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your words.

2 Timothy 1:12

For these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

1 Peter 1:5

who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked will be silent in darkness. “For by strength shall no man prevail.