Ecclesiastes 9:1 Cross References - Brenton

¹ I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face.

³ And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones are under thy hands; and they are under thee; and he received of his words

⁹ granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

²⁵ And the king said to Sadoc, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I should find favour in the eyes of the Lord, then will he bring me back, and he will shew me it and its beauty. ²⁶ But if he should say thus, I have no pleasure in thee; behold, here I am, let him do to me according to that which is good in his eyes.

⁸ Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

¹⁰ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

¹⁴ Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

^{5 (30:5)} Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

^{5 (36:5)} Disclose thy way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring it to pass. ^{6 (36:6)} And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

^{3 (72:3)} For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

^{11 (72:11)} And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? ^{12 (72:12)} Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. ^{13 (72:13)} And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

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¹⁷ And my heart knew much — wisdom, and knowledge, parables and understanding: I perceived that this also is waywardness of spirit.

^{15 (7:16)} I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

^{25 (7:26)} I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.

¹⁶ Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.

¹⁴ A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables. ¹⁰ The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, even words of truth.

¹² O Lord our God, give us peace: for thou hast rendered to us all things.

¹ Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, saith the Lord: from my mother's womb he has called my name: ² and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver; ³ and said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in thee I will be glorified. ⁴ Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgement with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

¹⁸ Behold, I have made thee this day as a strong city, and as a brazen wall, strong against all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof, and the people of the land. ¹⁹ And they shall fight against thee; but they shall by no means prevail against thee; because I am with thee, to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁵ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered. ¹⁶ Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbour: and the Lord gave heed, and hearkened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, saith the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him. ¹⁸ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.