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 now that evil works are not hastily punished, the heart of man giveth himself over unto wickedness.

And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder,

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

And madness

for thereunto I applied my mind: that I might know what were wisdom and understanding, what were error and foolishness. And I perceived that this also was but a vexation of mind:

I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.

And they were filled full of madness, and communed one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger.

"And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme: and was yet more mad upon them, and persecuted them even unto strange cities.

but was rebuked of his iniquity. The tame and dumb beast, speaking with man's voice forbade the foolishness of the prophet.

After

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

General references

And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the midst of the sea, with all Pharaoh's horses, and his chariots and his horsemen.

Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?

The high priests therefore held a council that they might put Lazarus to death also,

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners: lest any of them, when he had swum out, should flee away.