- Bible
- Ecclesiastes
- Chapter 12
- Verse 14
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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Gill's Exposition
For God shall bring every work into judgment,.... Not in this life, but in the day of the great judgment, as the Targum explains it; that is, whatever has been done by men, from the beginning of the…
This passage is properly regarded as the Epilogue of the whole book; a kind of apology for the obscurity of many of its sayings. The passage serves therefore to make the book more intelligible and…
The great enquiry which Solomon prosecutes in this book is, What is that good which the sons of men should do? Ecc 2:3. What is the true way to true happiness, the certain means to attain our great…
Cambridge Bible
For God shall bring every work into judgment Once again the Teacher brings into prominence what was indeed the outcome of the book; though, as history shews, the careless reader, still more the reader…
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