Ecclesiastes 9:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² Everything turns out the same for everyone. One destination waits for the righteous and the wicked, and the good,^[a] the ceremonially clean and the unclean, the one who brings sacrifices and the one who does not. As it will be for the good, so it will be for the sinner. As it will be for the one who swears an oath, so it will be for the one who is afraid to take an oath.

³ This is an evil that infects everything done under the sun. Yes, they all share one fate. What’s more, people’s hearts are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts as long as they live. After that they go to the dead.

⁴ Now, whoever is still joined to all the living has hope, because a living dog is better than a dead lion.