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Ecclesiastes 9:1

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Of God. He seems to treat both alike, so that the just themselves cannot say whether their sufferings be a punishment or a trial. (St. Jerome) (Calmet) Knoweth not certainly, and in an ordinary manner. (Worthington) Hatred. Hebrew and Septuagint, "yet love and hatred man knoweth not. "(Haydock) Prosperity or adversity proves nothing. (Calmet) Mortals cannot tell whether their afflictions tend to their greater improvement, like Job's, or they are in punishment of sin, like those of Pharao, and of the Egyptians. This they shall know after death. (Worthington) Yet the wicked know already that they are displeasing to God. (Salmeron in 2 Corinthians xii.) "The just and.their works are in the hand of God, even love and hatred; men know not "(De Dieu; Amama)

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