Ecclesiastes 9:3
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.
KJV
Hoc est pessimum inter omnia quæ sub sole fiunt : quia eadem cunctis eveniunt. Unde et corda filiorum hominum implentur malitia et contemptu in vita sua, et post hæc ad inferos deducentur.
Vulgate
τοῦτο πονηρὸν ἐν παντὶ πεποιημένῳ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον ὅτι συνάντημα ἓν τοῖς πᾶσιν· καί γε καρδία υἱῶν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπληρώθη πονηροῦ, καὶ περιφέρεια ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν ἐν ζωῇ αὐτῶν, καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτῶν πρὸς τοὺς νεκρούς.
LXX
This is an evil in all that is 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.
ASV
זֶ֣ה רָ֗ע בְּ/כֹ֤ל אֲשֶֽׁר נַעֲשָׂה֙ תַּ֣חַת הַ/שֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כִּֽי מִקְרֶ֥ה אֶחָ֖ד לַ/כֹּ֑ל וְ/גַ֣ם לֵ֣ב בְּֽנֵי הָ֠/אָדָם מָלֵא רָ֨ע וְ/הוֹלֵל֤וֹת בִּ/לְבָבָ/ם֙ בְּ/חַיֵּי/הֶ֔ם וְ/אַחֲרָ֖י/ו אֶל הַ/מֵּתִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 1:17 — And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
- Eccl 8:11 — 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.
- Eccl 10:5 — There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
- Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Gen 19:9 — And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man,
- Jer 16:12 — 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:
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Job 15:16 — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- John 12:10 — But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- John 13:27 — And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
- Luke 6:11 — And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
- Luke 15:17 — And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- Ps 4:2 — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Rom 1:29 — Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
- Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.