Ecclesiastes 9:3

The Scriptures 1998

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And יהוה  saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה  smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה  said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,

Job 15:16

how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!

Job 21:26

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

Job 9:22

It is all the same, therefore I say, ‘He destroys the perfect and the wrong.’

Psalm 51:5

See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 64:7

But Elohim does shoot at them with an arrow; Their wounds shall be sudden.

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise one’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men. And the living take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is filled in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge – for time and chance meets with them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all: One event to the righteous and to the wrong; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; and to the one slaughtering and to the one not slaughtering. As is the good one, so is the sinner; the one swearing as the one fearing an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But for him who is joined to all the living there is trust, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Jeremiah 16:12

‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I, יהוה, search the heart, I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Luke 15:17

“But having come to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with folly, and were speaking with one another what they should do to יהושע.

Acts 12:23

And instantly a messenger of יהוה  smote him, because he did not give the esteem to Elohim. And becoming worm-eaten, he died.

Acts 26:11

“And punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:24

And while saying this in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, “Sha’ul, you are mad! Much learning is turning you to madness!”

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.

2 Peter 2:16

but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.