Ecclesiastes 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Also

And madness

After

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Proverbs 14:32

Acts 12:23

General references

Acts 27:42

Bible References

Also

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The Lord

smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

And madness

And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.

But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.

But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

After

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the

spirit will return to God who gave it.

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

General references

Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;