Ecclesiastes 9
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.
considered in my heart
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: …
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that …
Ecclesiastes 12:9,10 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the …
that the
Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth; that there be just …
Deuteronomy 33:3 Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they …
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent …
2 Samuel 15:25,26 And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: …
Job 5:8 I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
Psalm 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it …
Psalm 31:5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalm 37:5,6 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass…
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.
Isaiah 26:12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have worked all …
Isaiah 49:1-4 Listen, O isles, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD …
Jeremiah 1:18,19 For, behold, I have made you this day a defended city, and an iron …
John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…
1 Corinthians 3:5-15 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …
2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am …
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready …
no man
Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just …
Psalm 73:3,11-13 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…
Malachi 3:15-18 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are …
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
alike
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: …
Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Malachi 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are …
as is
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this …
Ecclesiastes 8:12-14 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, …
feareth
Genesis 24:3,8,9 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …
Joshua 2:17-20 And the men said to her, We will be blameless of this your oath which …
1 Samuel 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; …
Ezekiel 17:18,19 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, …
Zechariah 5:3,4 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face …
Malachi 3:15,18 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are …
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
also
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore …
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Matthew 15:19,20 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
Romans 1:29-31 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
and madness
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: …
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
Luke 6:11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another …
Luke 15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of …
Acts 26:11,24 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to …
2 Peter 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb donkey speaking with man's …
after
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit …
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Job 14:7-12 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout …
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when …
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they …
Lamentations 3:21,22 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope…
Luke 16:26-29 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: …
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
the living
Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house …
Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed …
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
the dead
Job 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought …
Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall …
Psalm 88:10,11 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah…
Isaiah 63:16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and …
for the
Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever…
Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place …
Job 7:8-10 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are …
Psalm 109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the …
Isaiah 26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall …
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
their love
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Job 3:17,18 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest…
Psalm 146:3,4 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there …
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation …
Matthew 2:20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into …
have they
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
go
Genesis 12:19 Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to …
Mark 7:29 And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the devil is gone …
John 4:50 Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed …
eat
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, …
Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the …
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers …
Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice …
Deuteronomy 16:14,15 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your …
1 Kings 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king…
1 Chronicles 16:1-3 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the middle of the tent …
1 Chronicles 29:21-23 And they sacrificed sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings …
2 Chronicles 30:23-27 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and …
Nehemiah 8:10-12 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, …
for
Genesis 4:4,5 And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the …
Exodus 24:8-11 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, …
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is …
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
thy garments
2 Samuel 19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and …
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel …
Revelation 3:4,5 You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their …
Revelation 7:9,13,14 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could …
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps …
Revelation 19:8,14 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, …
let thy head
Ruth 3:3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your raiment on …
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched there a wise woman, and said …
Daniel 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, …
Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: …
Matthew 6:17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
Luke 7:46 My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed …
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
live joyfully with the wife
Proverbs 5:18,19 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth…
Proverbs 18:22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife …
Malachi 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And …
all the days of his life
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Psalm 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as …
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
for
Ecclesiastes 2:10,24 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not …
Ecclesiastes 3:13,22 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good …
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
thy hand
Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up …
1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise …
1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, …
1 Chronicles 29:2,3 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the …
2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which …
Ezra 6:14,15 And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the …
Nehemiah 2:12-20 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told …
Nehemiah 3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, …
Nehemiah 4:2,6,9-13,17-23 And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, …
Nehemiah 13:8-31 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household …
Psalm 71:15-18 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all …
Jeremiah 29:13 And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me …
Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, …
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Romans 15:18-20 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ …
1 Corinthians 9:24,26 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives …
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed …
1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: …
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;
2 Peter 1:12-15 Why I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these …
for
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any …
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth: …
Job 14:7-12 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout …
Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall …
Psalm 88:10-12 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah…
Isaiah 38:18,19 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they …
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night …
Acts 20:25-31 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching …
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
returned
Ecclesiastes 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for …
Ecclesiastes 4:1,4 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
that the race
1 Samuel 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, …
2 Samuel 2:18-23 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and …
2 Samuel 17:14,23 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
Psalm 33:16,17 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
Psalm 73:6,7 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers …
Psalm 147:10,11 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure …
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …
Jeremiah 46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall …
Amos 2:14-16 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
but
Ecclesiastes 2:14,15 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: …
Ecclesiastes 3:14-17 I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can …
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he …
1 Samuel 2:3-10 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of …
Job 5:11-14 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be …
Job 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides …
Proverbs 21:30,31 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD…
Lamentations 3:37,38 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not…
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance…
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
man
Ecclesiastes 8:5-7,11 Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise …
Luke 19:42-44 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day…
2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he said, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day …
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas …
as the fishes
Proverbs 7:22,23 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or …
Habakkuk 1:14-17 And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that …
2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, …
the sons
Job 18:8-10 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a snare…
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible …
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Proverbs 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be …
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous …
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, …
Luke 12:20,39 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
Luke 17:26-31 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days …
Luke 21:34-36 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, …
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Ecclesiastes 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:
Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just …
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that …
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
there was
2 Samuel 20:15-22 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast …
2 Kings 6:24-33 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered …
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD…
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
yet
Genesis 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Esther 6:2,3 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and …
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
wisdom
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the strength …
Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong; yes, a man of knowledge increases strength.
the poor
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the …
Mark 6:2,3 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: …
John 7:47-49 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are you also deceived…
John 9:24-34 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said to him, Give …
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after …
James 2:2-6 For if there come to your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly …
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Genesis 41:33-40 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set …
1 Samuel 7:3-6 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return …
Proverbs 28:23 He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that …
Isaiah 42:2,4 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street…
James 1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
better
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor …
sinner
Joshua 7:1,5,11,12 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …
Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed …
1 Samuel 14:28,29,36-46 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father straightly …
2 Samuel 20:1,2 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume …
2 Timothy 2:16-18 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase to more …
2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist …
2 Timothy 4:3,4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; …
Titus 1:10,11 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially …
Hebrews 12:15,16 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
