Ecclesiastes 9:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

IX.

(1) No man knoweth. — If this verse stood by itself we should understand, “Man cannot know whether he will experience marks of the Divine favour, or the reverse;” but taking Ecclesiastes 9:6 into account, we understand of a man’s own love or hatred the objects of which he cannot tell beforehand.

By all. — Rather, all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

1 For all this I considereda in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.