Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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. 2 All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, he loveth the peoples, All his saints are in thy hand, And they sit down at thy feet; Each receiveth of thy words.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
1 Samuel 2:9
He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
2 Samuel 15:25-26
And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and shew me it, and its habitation.
Job 5:8
But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Job 12:10
In whose 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 thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 31:5
Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, thou God of truth.
Psalm 37:5-6
Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will bring it to pass;
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 73:11-13
And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
Proverbs 16:3
Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
Ecclesiastes 10:14
And the fool multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?
Ecclesiastes 12:9-10
And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Isaiah 26:12
Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
Isaiah 49:1-4
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples from afar. Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Jeremiah 1:18-19
And I, behold, I appoint thee this day as a strong city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land; against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
Malachi 3:15-18
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
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 Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.
2 Timothy 1:12
For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
1 Peter 1:5
who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.