The Uncertainty of Life and Death

Ecclesiastes 9:1-6

I applied myself to all of this, sifted through it and concluded that the righteous and the wise, along with their deeds, are in God's hands - a person cannot know whether these people and deeds will be rewarded with love or with hatred; all options are open.

Anything can happen to anyone; the same thing can happen to the righteous as to the wicked, to the good and clean and to the unclean, to someone who offers a sacrifice and to someone who doesn't offer a sacrifice; it is the same for a good person as for a sinner, for someone who takes an oath rashly as for someone who fears to take an oath.

This is another evil among all those done under the sun, that the same events can occur to anyone. Truly, the human mind is full of evil; and as long as people live, folly is in their hearts; after which they go to be with the dead.

For as long as a person is linked with the living, there is hope - better to be a living dog than a dead lion!

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.

What they loved, what they hated and what they envied all disappeared long ago, and they no longer have a share in anything done under the sun.

The Uncertainty of Life and Death

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