Ecclesiastes 9:1

New International Version

So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.

Cross References

Job 12:10

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

Job 27:12

You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?

Job 5:8

“But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.

Psalm 10:14

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 119:109

Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.

Psalm 31:5

Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.

Psalm 73:3

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 16:3

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

Isaiah 26:12

Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

Jeremiah 43:6

They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan—the men, the women, the children and the king’s daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,

2 Timothy 1:12

That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

1 Peter 1:5

who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness. “It is not by strength that one prevails;