Ecclesiastes 9

NET

All Things are in God's Hand - All Men eventually Die

1 So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated—no one knows what lies ahead.


Darby

All Things are in God's Hand - All Men eventually Die

1 For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.


KJV

All Things are in God's Hand - All Men eventually Die

1 For all this I considered in my heartK4441even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.


KJV Bible Notes

I considered in my heart: Heb. I gave, or set to my heart.