Ecclesiastes 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Also

And madness

After

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Proverbs 14:32

Acts 12:23

General references

Acts 27:42

Bible References

Also

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

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

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

And madness

And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit.

I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness;

And they were filled with madness, and talked with one another as to what they might do to Jesus.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!

And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.

but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.

After

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.

General references

And the Egyptians pursued and went after them to the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

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

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus to death also,

And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.