Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them 2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of all are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Syr Compare Gk: Heb Everything that confronts them 2 is everything
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks and the evil
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