Ecclesiastes 9:3

New English Translation

This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives – then they die.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Job 21:26

Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

Job 9:22

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again, I observed this on the earth: the race is not always won by the swiftest, the battle is not always won by the strongest; prosperity does not always belong to those who are the wisest, wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning, nor does success always come to those with the most knowledge – for time and chance may overcome them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone shares the same fate – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

Jeremiah 17:9

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Luke 15:17

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 26:11

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

Acts 26:24

As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly, “You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

2 Peter 2:16

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).