Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
For I have taken all this to my heart and explain
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.
International Standard Version
In light of all of this, I committed myself to explain it this way: the righteous and the wise, along with everything they do, are in the hands of God. Furthermore, as to love and hate, no human being knows everything concerning them.
A Conservative Version
For 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. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
American Standard Version
For 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 be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
Amplified
For I have taken all this to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (those in right standing with God) and the wise and their deeds are in the hands of God. No man knows whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.
Bible in Basic English
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Darby Translation
For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
Julia Smith Translation
For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.
King James 2000
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 knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.
Modern King James verseion
For all this I took to heart, even to make all this clear, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them.
NET Bible
So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated -- no one knows what lies ahead.
New Heart English Bible
For 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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, unto all this, I applied my heart, and, my heart, considered all this, that, the righteous and the wise and their servants, were in the hand of God, - neither love nor hatred, could any man know, every one, was before Him.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
For 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them.
Interlinear
Nathan
Leb
Yad
Yada`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Same Fate'Death'Awaits Everyone
1 For I have taken all this to my heart and explain
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, he loved the peoples; all his saints are in thy hand; they also united at thy feet; they received thy words.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is another vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are just men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the righteous; I say that this also is vanity.
1 Samuel 2:9
He keeps the feet of his saints, and the wicked perish in darkness, for no man shall prevail by their own strength.
2 Samuel 15:25-26
But the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city; if I shall find grace in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again and show me both it and his tabernacle.
Job 5:8
I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs;
Job 12:10
In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.
Psalm 10:14
Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 31:5
Into thy hand shall I commit my spirit; thou shalt ransom me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalm 37:5-6
Gimel Turn thy way unto the LORD and wait in him, and he shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 73:3
For I became angry against the foolish when I saw the peace of the wicked.
Psalm 73:11-13
And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Proverbs 16:3
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom and knowledge and to know folly and those who are mad; I learned in the end that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes for his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his days by his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;
Ecclesiastes 8:16
Therefore I applied mine heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes).
Ecclesiastes 10:14
The fool multiplies words and says, Man cannot tell what shall be, and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Ecclesiastes 12:9-10
And the wiser the preacher became that much more did he teach wisdom to the people, causing them to listen and to search things out, and he composed many proverbs.
Isaiah 26:12
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought in us all our works.
Isaiah 49:1-4
Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far, The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother he has remembered my name.
Jeremiah 1:18-19
For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as a wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
Malachi 3:15-18
We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; those that tempted God have escaped.
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 servants by whom ye believed, each one according to that which the Lord gave.
2 Timothy 1:12
For which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
1 Peter 1:5
who are kept in the virtue of God by faith, to attain unto the saving health which is made ready to be manifested in the last time.