Ecclesiastes 9:2

Modern English Version

The same fate comes to all; there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the evil, for the clean and unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As is the good person, So is the sinful person; As it is for the one who takes an oath, So also for the one who fears an oath.

Cross References

Genesis 24:3

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

Job 9:22

It is all one thing; therefore I said, ‘He destroys both the perfect and the wicked.’

Psalm 73:3

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

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For there is an event for people and an event for animals, one fate for them both; as one dies, so does the other; there is one breath for all of them. There is no advantage for people over animals, for everything is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Though the man may live a thousand years twice over, yet does not enjoy the good things, do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you take hold of these two sayings, and from these warnings, remove not your hand; for the one who fears God will follow them both.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning for a funeral than to go to a house of feasting for a celebration; for this is the destiny of all humanity; and the living should consider this in their heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I observed under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same fate comes to all people. Moreover, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live; after that they go to the place of the dead.

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.

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud blessed, for those who do wickedness are built up; they even test God and escape.”

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

1 Samuel 14:26

When the people came into the forest, behold, there was flowing honey. But no man put his hand to his mouth, because the people feared the oath.