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

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

And madness

So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness).

After

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

General references

The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea -- all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.