In His hand is the life of every creature, and the breath of all the human race.
Ecclesiastes 9:1 - Tree of Life Version For all this I laid on my heart and to ascertain all this: that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works are in the hand of God. Whether love or hatred, no one knows—everything awaits them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition FOR ALL this I took to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) and the wise and their works are in the hands of God. Whether it is to be love or hatred no man knows; all that is before them. American Standard Version (1901) For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them. Common English Bible So I considered all of this carefully, examining all of it: The righteous and the wise and their deeds are in God’s hand, along with both love and hate. People don’t know anything that’s ahead of them. Catholic Public Domain Version I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: |
In His hand is the life of every creature, and the breath of all the human race.
Look, you have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
You saw—for You see trouble and grief, to take it in Your hand. The victim puts his trust in You— You are the helper of the orphan.
My soul is continually in danger, yet I have not forgotten Your Torah.
So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.
and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will happen after him?
During my fleeting days I have seen both of these things: sometimes a righteous one perishes in his righteousness and sometimes a wicked one lives long in his wickedness.
So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.
There is another enigma that occurs upon the earth: there are righteous people who are requited according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are requited according to the work of the righteous. I said, “This also is meaningless.”
When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done upon the earth (his eyes not seeing sleep either day or night),
Their love, their hatred, and their zeal have already perished; never again will they have a share in anything that is done under the sun.
Adonai, You will establish shalom for us, for all our works You have done for us.
the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, everyone that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah—
Indeed, a lover of peoples is He— all His kedoshim are in His hand. They followed in Your steps, each receiving Your words.
For this reason I also am suffering these things—but I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have trusted and I am convinced He is able to safeguard what I have entrusted to Him until that Day.
By trusting, you are being protected by God’s power for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
He guards the steps of His godly ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness. For one does not prevail by might.