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Ecclesiastes Chapter 9

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Ecclesiastes

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After the death of his son, Solomon reflects on the fleeting nature of human life and the futility of seeking pleasure. He urges the reader to fear God and keep his commandments, for all that is gained is temporary.

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(1) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17Ecclesiastes 7:25Ecclesiastes 8:16Ecclesiastes 12:9Ecclesiastes 12:10Ecclesiastes 8:14Deuteronomy 33:3I Samuel 2:9II Samuel 15:25II Samuel 15:26Job 5:8Psalms 10:14

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Luke 6:32Ecclesiastes 2:19Matthew 10:41Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:7

(2) All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14Ecclesiastes 2:15Ecclesiastes 2:16Job 21:7Job 21:8Job 21:9Job 21:10Job 21:11Job 21:12Job 21:13Job 21:14Job 21:15

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Leviticus 20:25Leviticus 5:2Matthew 10:41Numbers 19:19Deuteronomy 12:22Deuteronomy 15:22

(3) This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, 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.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21Job 15:16Psalms 51:5Jeremiah 17:9Matthew 15:19Matthew 15:20Mark 7:21Mark 7:22Mark 7:23Romans 1:29

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Ecclesiastes 9:9Jonah 4:8Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20

(4) For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Job 14:7Job 14:8Job 14:9Job 14:10Job 14:11Job 14:12Job 27:8Isaiah 38:18Lamentations 3:21Lamentations 3:22Luke 16:26Luke 16:27

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Leviticus 14:6I Kings 3:22I Kings 3:26Isaiah 38:19Ezekiel 1:13Ezekiel 1:15

(5) For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2Job 30:23Hebrews 9:27Job 14:21Psalms 6:5Psalms 88:10Psalms 88:11Isaiah 63:16Ecclesiastes 2:16Ecclesiastes 8:10Job 7:8Job 7:9

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(6) Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
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Exodus 1:8Job 3:17Job 3:18Psalms 146:3Psalms 146:4Proverbs 10:28Matthew 2:20Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:19Ecclesiastes 2:20Ecclesiastes 2:21Ecclesiastes 2:22

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Luke 6:32Ecclesiastes 9:9Ezekiel 45:7Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16

(7) Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
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Genesis 12:19Mark 7:29John 4:50Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 2:25Ecclesiastes 2:26Ecclesiastes 3:12Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 5:18Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 10:19Deuteronomy 12:7

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18Isaiah 9:3

(8) Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
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II Samuel 19:24Esther 8:15Revelation 3:4Revelation 3:5Revelation 7:9Revelation 7:13Revelation 7:14Revelation 16:15Revelation 19:8Revelation 19:14Ruth 3:3II Samuel 14:2

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Ezekiel 44:19

(9) Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
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Proverbs 5:18Proverbs 5:19Proverbs 18:22Proverbs 19:14Malachi 2:15Ecclesiastes 6:12Psalms 39:5Psalms 144:4Ecclesiastes 2:10Ecclesiastes 2:24Ecclesiastes 3:13Ecclesiastes 3:22

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Ecclesiastes 1:2Jonah 4:8Ecclesiastes 2:11Ecclesiastes 2:19Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 2:21

(10) Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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Numbers 13:30I Chronicles 22:19I Chronicles 28:20I Chronicles 29:2I Chronicles 29:3II Chronicles 31:20II Chronicles 31:21Ezra 6:14Ezra 6:15Nehemiah 2:12Nehemiah 2:13Nehemiah 2:14

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Philippians 4:8Proverbs 14:6Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 7:12Leviticus 11:42John 13:36

(11) 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 favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Ecclesiastes 2:12Ecclesiastes 4:1Ecclesiastes 4:4Malachi 3:18I Samuel 17:50II Samuel 2:18II Samuel 2:19II Samuel 2:20II Samuel 2:21II Samuel 2:22II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 17:14

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Deuteronomy 4:6Proverbs 1:5Ecclesiastes 2:15Ecclesiastes 2:19Judges 8:13Isaiah 38:8

(12) For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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Ecclesiastes 8:5Ecclesiastes 8:6Ecclesiastes 8:7Ecclesiastes 8:11Luke 19:42Luke 19:43Luke 19:44II Corinthians 6:2I Peter 2:12Proverbs 7:22Proverbs 7:23Habakkuk 1:14

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John 21:11

(13) This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
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Ecclesiastes 9:11Ecclesiastes 6:1Ecclesiastes 7:15Ecclesiastes 8:16

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I Kings 4:30

(14) There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
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II Samuel 20:15II Samuel 20:16II Samuel 20:17II Samuel 20:18II Samuel 20:19II Samuel 20:20II Samuel 20:21II Samuel 20:22II Kings 6:24II Kings 6:25II Kings 6:26II Kings 6:27

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I Kings 6:16Ezekiel 40:7Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33

(15) Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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Genesis 40:23Esther 6:2Esther 6:3

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Deuteronomy 15:7Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 10:9Psalms 35:10Proverbs 14:31Proverbs 22:22

(16) Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Ecclesiastes 9:18Ecclesiastes 7:19Proverbs 21:22Proverbs 24:5Proverbs 10:15Mark 6:2Mark 6:3John 7:47John 7:48John 7:49John 9:24John 9:25

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I Kings 4:30Ecclesiastes 9:15I Kings 4:34Proverbs 4:7Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 7:12

(17) The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
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Genesis 41:33Genesis 41:34Genesis 41:35Genesis 41:36Genesis 41:37Genesis 41:38Genesis 41:39Genesis 41:40I Samuel 7:3I Samuel 7:4I Samuel 7:5I Samuel 7:6

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Exodus 22:23Proverbs 13:20Isaiah 19:11

(18) Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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Joshua 7:1Joshua 7:5Joshua 7:11Joshua 7:12Joshua 22:20I Samuel 14:28I Samuel 14:29I Samuel 14:36I Samuel 14:37I Samuel 14:38I Samuel 14:39I Samuel 14:40

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Ecclesiastes 9:16I Kings 4:30

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