For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. Deu 33:3Jhn 10:27-301Pe 1:5Ecc 7:15Ecc 8:14Job 12:101Sa 2:92Ti 1:12 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. Mal 3:18Ecc 2:14-16Job 9:22Mal 3:5Psa 73:3Mal 3:15Ecc 2:26Ecc 6:6 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes 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. Jer 17:9Ecc 8:11Ecc 1:17Job 15:16Psa 51:5Rom 1:29-31Tit 3:32Pe 2:16 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Job 14:7-12Isa 38:18Luk 16:26-29Lam 3:21-22Job 27:8 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. Isa 26:14Ecc 1:11Psa 6:5Psa 88:10-12Heb 9:27Job 14:21Psa 109:15Ecc 2:16 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. Psa 146:3-4Ecc 6:12Job 3:17-18Mat 2:20Ecc 2:18-23Exo 1:8Pro 10:28
Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. Ecc 3:12-13Deu 12:7Ecc 10:19Ecc 8:15Ecc 2:24-26Neh 8:10-121Ch 16:1-3Ecc 5:18 Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil. Rev 19:14Rev 3:4-5Rev 19:8Rev 7:13-14Rev 16:15Rev 7:92Sa 19:24Dan 10:3 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. Pro 5:18-19Ecc 2:10Ecc 6:12Mal 2:15Ecc 3:13Ecc 2:24Ecc 3:22Ecc 5:18 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, 1 where you are going. Col 3:23Eph 5:16Rom 12:11Psa 6:5Ecc 11:62Ch 31:20-211Co 9:24Jhn 9:4
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. Jer 9:23Pro 21:30-31Lam 3:37-38Job 5:11-14Ecc 3:17Amo 2:14-16Ecc 3:14Psa 147:10-11 For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them. 1Th 5:3Luk 21:34-36Pro 6:15Ecc 8:5-7Job 18:8-10Luk 12:20Pro 29:6Psa 73:18-20
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me. Ecc 8:16Ecc 6:1Ecc 7:15Ecc 9:11 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 2Ki 6:242Sa 20:15-22 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Ecc 4:13Gen 40:23Est 6:2-32Sa 20:22Ecc 2:16 Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. Ecc 7:19Pro 24:5Pro 21:22Mrk 6:2-31Co 1:26-29Jas 2:2-6Ecc 9:18Jhn 7:47-49 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools. Jas 3:17-18Pro 28:23Isa 42:2Jas 1:201Sa 7:3-6Gen 41:33-40Isa 42:4 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good. Jos 7:1Jos 7:11-122Ti 2:16-182Ti 4:3-4Ecc 9:16Jos 7:52Ti 3:8Tit 1:10-11