我仔细思想、探究这些事,就知道义人、智者及他们的行事为人都由上帝掌管,人无法知道前面等待自己的是爱还是恨。 义人和恶人、好人和坏人、洁净的和污秽的、献祭的和不献祭的、行善的和犯罪的、敢于起誓的和不敢起誓的人,最终的命运都一样。 在日光之下有一件可悲的事,就是人最终的命运都一样。再者,人内心都充满邪恶,活着的时候行事狂妄,最后都步入死亡。

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我仔細思想、探究這些事,就知道義人、智者及他們的行事為人都由上帝掌管,人無法知道前面等待自己的是愛還是恨。 義人和惡人、好人和壞人、潔淨的和污穢的、獻祭的和不獻祭的、行善的和犯罪的、敢於起誓的和不敢起誓的人,最終的命運都一樣。 在日光之下有一件可悲的事,就是人最終的命運都一樣。再者,人內心都充滿邪惡,活著的時候行事狂妄,最後都步入死亡。

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A Common Destiny for All

So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(A) All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.(B)

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.(C) The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live,(D) and afterward they join the dead.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.