Ecclesiastes 9:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

I considered. I have taken to heart.

even to declare. Septuagint and Syriac read, "and my heart proved".

the righteous =. just ones. God. Hebrew. Elohim. (with Art.). the [true] God: the Deity. App-4.

hatred by all that is before them. hatred. All lies before them (i.e. in the future).

them: i.e. the righteous and the lawless.

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.