קהלת 9:3

Hebrew Modern Translation

זה רע בכל אשר נעשה תחת השמש כי מקרה אחד לכל וגם לב בני האדם מלא רע והוללות בלבבם בחייהם ואחריו אל המתים׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
זה רע בכל אשר נעשה תחת השמש כי מקרה אחד לכל וגם לב בני האדם מלא רע והוללות בלבבם בחייהם ואחריו אל המתים

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
זֶ֣ה ׀ רָ֗ע בְּכֹ֤ל אֲשֶֽׁר־נַעֲשָׂה֙ תַּ֣חַת הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כִּֽי־מִקְרֶ֥ה אֶחָ֖ד לַכֹּ֑ל וְגַ֣ם לֵ֣ב בְּֽנֵי־הָ֠אָדָם מָלֵא־רָ֨ע וְהוֹלֵלֹ֤ות בִּלְבָבָם֙ בְּחַיֵּיהֶ֔ם וְאַחֲרָ֖יו אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
זֶה ׀ רָע בְּכֹל אֲשֶֽׁר־נַעֲשָׂה תַּחַת הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ כִּֽי־מִקְרֶה אֶחָד לַכֹּל וְגַם לֵב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָם מָלֵא־רָע וְהוֹלֵלוֹת בִּלְבָבָם בְּחַיֵּיהֶם וְאַחֲרָיו אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

also: Ecclesiastes 8:11, Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Job 15:16, Psalms 51:5, Jeremiah 17:9, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 15:20, Mark 7:21-23, Romans 1:29-31, Titus 3:3

and madness: Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Luke 6:11, Luke 15:17, Acts 26:11, Acts 26:24, 2 Peter 2:16

after: Ecclesiastes 12:7, Proverbs 14:32, Acts 12:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:9 - pressed Exodus 14:23 - General Numbers 14:40 - rose up Numbers 22:29 - for now would 1 Samuel 19:1 - And Saul 1 Samuel 20:32 - what hath 2 Kings 1:13 - he sent again Job 15:20 - travaileth Job 36:11 - spend Psalms 4:2 - O Proverbs 21:8 - way Ecclesiastes 1:3 - under Ecclesiastes 8:14 - a vanity Ecclesiastes 10:5 - an evil Jeremiah 16:12 - evil John 12:10 - General John 13:27 - That Acts 13:10 - O full Acts 27:42 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all,.... A very great evil, a very sore one, the worst of evils. Not an evil, as the providence of God is concerned with it, who does no evil; nor is there any unrighteousness in him; he is righteous in all his ways: but this is an evil, and distressing thing, to the minds of good men; see Psalms 73:2; and is what bad men make an ill use of, to harden themselves in sin, and to despise religion as an unprofitable thing,

Job 21:14;

yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil: they are naturally full of evil, of all unrighteousness and wickedness, what comes out of them show it; and because the same things happen to good and bad men, and the wicked pass with impunity, and are outwardly happy as others, or more so, their hearts are fully set in them to do evil, Ecclesiastes 8:11;

and madness is in their heart while they live; or "madnesses" x: every sin is madness; for who but a madman would stretch out his hand against God, and strengthen himself against the Almighty, and run upon him? who but a madman would rush into sin in the manner he does, and expose himself to dangers and death, even eternal death? Wicked men are mad upon their lusts, and mad against the saints, and all that is good; this insanity is in their hearts, and shows itself in their lives, and continues with them as long as they live, unless called by grace;

and after that [they go] to the dead; after all the madness of their lives, they die and go into the state of the dead, and are among which refers not so much to the interment of bodies in the grave, as the company with which their separate spirits are; they go not to the righteous dead, but to the wicked; see Proverbs 2:18; so Alshech; they go to the dead; not to the righteous, who, in their death, or when dead are called living, but, as Jarchi observes, at their end they go down to hell. The Targum is,

"after the end of a man, it is reserved for him that he be corrected with the dead, according to the judgment (or desert) of sins.''

x הוללות "insaniae", Montanus, Mercerus, Drusius, Amama, Gejerus, Rambachius; "omnis insania", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Ecclesiastes 8:11. The seeming indiscriminateness of the course of events tends to encourage evil-disposed men in their folly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 9:3. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil — No wonder then that the curse of God should be frequent in the earth.