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Ecclesiastes 9:1

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Men Are in the Hand of God

1For I have taken all this to my heart and explain 1it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are ain the hand of God. bMan does not know whether it will be clove or hatred; anything 2awaits him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit all this
  2. 2Lit is before them

Cross references

  1. aDeut 33:3; Job 12:10; Ps 119:109
  2. bEccl 10:14
  3. cEccl 9:6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands. People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

NLTNew Living Translation

This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will come to them, whether it will be love or hatred.

KJV 1900King James Version

For all this I considered in my heart even 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.