Ecclesiastes 9:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹For 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
John 10:27-30
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: …
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
1 Peter 1:5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

It has been observed concerning those who have pretended to search for the philosophers’ stone that, though they could never find what they sought for, yet in the search they have hit upon many other useful discoveries and experiments. Thus Solomon, when, in the close of the foregoing chapter, he applied his heart to know the work of God, and took a great deal of pains to search into it, though he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ec 9:1-18. 1. declare--rather, explore; the result of my exploring is this, that “the righteous, &c., are in the hand of God. No man knoweth either the love or hatred (of God to them) by all that is before them,” that is, by what is outwardly seen in His present dealings (Ec 8:14, 17). However, from the sense of the same words, in Ec 9:6, “love and hatred” seem to be the feelings of the wicked tow…