Ecc 9:1-3 | ESV | STEP | But all this I laid to heart , examining it all , how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God . Whether it is love or hate , man does not know ; both are before him.

g[See ver. 2 above]

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

Death Comes to All

1 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, ^ahow the righteous and the wise and their deeds are ^bin the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 ^cIt is the same for all, since ^dthe same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil} to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who ^fswears is as he who shuns an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that ^gthe same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and ^hmadness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.