Ecclesiastes 9:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

All things come alike to all. Just as before all others. Reading on from Ecclesiastes 9:1.

one event: i.e. death. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:14.

the wicked. a lawless one. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

sinner. Hebrew. chata. App-44. All the nouns in this verse are singular.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.