Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

Enjoy Life Despite Death

9 Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.^(A) People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them. ² Everything is the same for everyone:^(B) There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked,^(C) for the good and the bad,^[a] for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath. ³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live;^(D) after that they go to the dead.