This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that (A)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and (B)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?

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11 Because (A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, (B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

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17 And I (A)applied my heart to know wisdom and to know (B)madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but (C)a striving after wind.

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For (A)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

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29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

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16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; (A)a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

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24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, (A)you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”

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23 Immediately (A)an angel of the Lord struck him down, because (B)he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

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17 “But (A)when he (B)came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

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11 But they were filled with (A)fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

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21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, (A)murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, (B)sensuality, (C)envy, (D)slander, (E)pride, (F)foolishness. 23 (G)All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

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(A)It is the same for all, since (B)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (C)swears is as he who shuns an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil

25 (A)I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

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32 (A)The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,
    but (B)the righteous finds refuge in his death.

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Behold, (A)I was brought forth in iniquity,
    and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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16 (A)how much less one who is abominable and (B)corrupt,
    a man who (C)drinks injustice like water!

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21 And when the Lord smelled (A)the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again (B)curse[a] the ground because of man, for (C)the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. (D)Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:21 Or dishonor

11 And (A)I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them (B)blaspheme, and (C)in raging fury against them I (D)persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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19 For out of the heart come (A)evil thoughts, (B)murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, (C)slander. 20 (D)These are what defile a person. But (E)to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

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(A)The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every (B)intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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