Ecclesiastes 9:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All things come alike to all: there is 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; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Alike

As is

Ecclesiastes 2:26

Ecclesiastes 7:18

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Feareth

General references

Bible References

Alike

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.

Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.

For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

As is

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from all of them.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days be made longer, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

Feareth

And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of Heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

And the men said to her, We will be blameless of this oath to you which you have made us swear.

And when the people had come into the woods, behold, a flow of honey! But no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and has done all these, he shall not escape.

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

General references

And the famine was severe in the land.

For, as Jehovah lives, He who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered.

And Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?