Ecclesiastes 9:2

Death Comes to Good and Bad · Ecclesiastes 9:1–6
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Translations

Modern
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Traditional
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.
Literal
All is as for all: One event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the bad, and to the clean and to the unclean, and to the one sacrificing and to the one who is not sacrificing; as is the good one, so is the sinner, the one swearing an oath as the one refusing an oath.
Latin
Sed omnia in futurum servantur incerta, eo quod universa æque eveniant justo et impio, bono et malo, mundo et immundo, immolanti victimas et sacrificia contemnenti. Sicut bonus, sic et peccator; ut perjurus, ita et ille qui verum dejerat.

Original

Hebrew
English
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Notes

Everyone's fate is to eventually die.

From observing life, it seems death often lacks meaning. Why do some people die while others live longer? God's decision on this is unpredictable (Ecclesiastes 7:13–14).

Glossary

Book of Ecclesiastes

Topics

God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Oaths: To be Taken in Fear and Reverence