Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

◄ Ecclesiastes 12:14 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

English Standard Version
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

New American Standard Bible
For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.

King James Bible
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

International Standard Version
For God will judge every deed, along with every secret, whether good or evil.

American Standard Version
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

Darby Bible Translation
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.

Young's Literal Translation
For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

Cross References

Matthew 10:26
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Romans 2:16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Job 19:29
Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.

Psalm 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:8-14 Solomon repeats his text, VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY. These are the words of one that could speak by dear-bought experience of the vanity of the world, which can do nothing to ease men of the burden of sin. As he considered the worth of souls, he gave good heed to what he spake and wrote; words of truth will always be acceptable words. The truths of God are as goads to such as are dull and draw back, and nails to such as are wandering and draw aside; means to establish the heart, that we may never sit loose to our duty, nor be taken from it. The Shepherd of Israel is the Giver of inspired wisdom. Teachers and guides all receive their communications from him. The title is applied in Scripture to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The prophets sought diligently, what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. To write many books was not suited to the shortness of human life, and would be weariness to the writer, and to the reader; and then was much more so to both than it is now. All things would be vanity and vexation, except they led to this conclusion, That to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole of man. The fear of God includes in it all the affections of the soul towards him, which are produced by the Holy Spirit. There may be terror where there is no love, nay, where there is hatred. But this is different from the gracious fear of God, as the feelings of an affectionate child. The fear of God, is often put for the whole of true religion in the heart, and includes its practical results in the life. Let us attend to the one thing needful, and now come to him as a merciful Saviour, who will soon come as an almighty Judge, when he will bring to light the things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of all hearts. Why does God record in his word, that ALL IS VANITY, but to keep us from deceiving ourselves to our ruin? He makes our duty to be our interest. May it be graven in all our hearts. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is all that concerns man.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. For God shall bring every work into judgment—The future judgment is the test of what is "vanity," what solid, as regards the chief good, the grand subject of the book.