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A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/1.htm">Ecclesiastes</a> > <a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Chapter 9</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ecclesiastes/9-1.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 9:1">◄</a> Ecclesiastes 9:2 <a href="../ecclesiastes/9-3.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 9:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ecclesiastes/9.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But exactly the same thing will finally happen to all of us, whether we live right and respect God or sin and don't respect God. Yes, the same thing will happen if we offer sacrifices to God or if we don't, if we keep our promises or are afraid to make them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ecclesiastes/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Everything is the same for everybody: the same lot for the just and the wicked, for the good, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who offers sacrifice 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 takes an oath, so it is for the one who fears an oath.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.</p><p class="hdg">alike</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-14.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:14-16</a> The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/21-7.htm">Job 21:7</a> Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/73-3.htm">Psalm 73:3</a> Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-15.htm">Malachi 3:15</a> Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.</p><p class="hdg">as is</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-26.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:26</a> God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/7-18.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:18</a> It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/8-12.htm">Ecclesiastes 8:12-14</a> But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face. . . . </p><p class="hdg">feareth</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/24-3.htm">Genesis 24:3,8,9</a> That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/2-17.htm">Joshua 2:17-20</a> And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/14-26.htm">1 Samuel 14:26</a> And when the people came into the forest, behold the honey dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. For the people feared the oath.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/17-18.htm">Ezekiel 17:18,19</a> For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not escape. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/5-3.htm">Zechariah 5:3,4</a> And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-15.htm">Malachi 3:15,18</a> Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ecclesiastes/9.htm">Death Comes to Good and Bad</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/9-22.htm">Job 9:22</a></span><br />One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/21-26.htm">Job 21:26</a></span><br />And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-14.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:14</a></span><br />The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/3-19.htm">Ecclesiastes 3:19</a></span><br />Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/6-6.htm">Ecclesiastes 6:6</a></span><br />Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/7-2.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:2</a></span><br />It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/9-3.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:3</a></span><br />This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/9-11.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:11</a></span><br />I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/43-6.htm">Jeremiah 43:6</a></span><br />Men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and 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