Eccl.9.3

Ecclesiastes 9:3

KJV

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.

Death Comes to Good and Bad

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:17

KJV

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

With Wisdom Comes Sorrow

Ecclesiastes 2:14

KJV

The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

The Wise and the Foolish

Ecclesiastes 7:2

KJV

¶ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

The Value of Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 8:11

KJV

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Fear God

Ecclesiastes 9:2

KJV

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.

Death Comes to Good and Bad

Ecclesiastes 9:4

KJV

¶ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Death Comes to Good and Bad

Jeremiah 16:12

KJV GOD

And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

Disaster Predicted

Jeremiah 17:9

KJV GOD

¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The Sin and Punishment of Judah

Jeremiah 17:10

KJV GOD

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.