Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Take Life as It Comes
9 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. Everything before them is vanity,[a] 2 since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:1 Syr Compare Gk: Heb Everything before them is everything
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks and the evil
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