Ecclesiastes 9:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.

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  • Eccl 1:17 : 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • Matt 15:19-20 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
  • Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
  • Luke 6:11 : 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Eccl 7:25 : 25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • Eccl 9:1-2
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    1For 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 is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

    2All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

  • Eccl 3:16-20
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

    17I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

    18I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

    19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Eccl 8:9-11
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    9All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

    10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

    11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

  • Eccl 9:4-6
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    4For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:14-23
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    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

    15Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

    17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

    18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

    19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 1:9
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    9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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    2It 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 should take this to heart.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.

  • Eccl 8:6
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    6For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

  • Eccl 3:10
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    10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • Eccl 1:17
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    17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.