Cross references
Ecclesiastes 9:2
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.
- a LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew does not include and the bad.
Ecclesiastes 9:2 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Malachi 3:18 (8 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:14–16 (6 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 24 to Philippians 2.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 9:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Malachi 3:188 votes
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:14–166 votes
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile. …
- Job 9:225 votes
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Psalm 73:35 votes
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Malachi 3:55 votes
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:154 votes
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
- Genesis 24:33 votes
and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
- Genesis 24:8–93 votes
And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.” So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
- Joshua 2:17–203 votes
The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house. …
- Job 21:7–343 votes
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes. …
- Ecclesiastes 2:263 votes
- Ecclesiastes 6:63 votes
- Ecclesiastes 7:23 votes
- Ecclesiastes 7:183 votes
- Ecclesiastes 8:12–143 votes
- Ezekiel 17:18–193 votes
- Zechariah 5:3–43 votes
- 1 Samuel 14:262 votes
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 9:2?
The 10 strongest of 32.