“All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.”
The stark observation that all have the same fate—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean—presents the ultimate leveling. Distinctions that matter morally prove insignificant in the face of common death; the grave obliterates ethical differentiation. This verse consolidates Ecclesiastes' meditation on death as the universal equalizer.
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