Ecclesiastes 12:14

KJV

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

— Ecclesiastes 12:14, King James Version
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Ecclesiastes 12:14, King James Version.

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Study Note

The ultimate eschatological warning — 'for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil' — provides the comprehensive ground for the preceding injunction to fear God and keep commandments. The phrase 'every secret thing' (kol ne'lam) extends divine judgment beyond publicly visible actions to the hidden motivations, private transactions, and concealed thoughts that human courts cannot access. The book's wisdom, which had documented the vanity of all human achievement, concludes not with nihilism but with moral accountability: the same God who controls life's brevity also evaluates its quality. Matthew 12:36 ('every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account') and Romans 2:16 ('God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ') develop the same theology of comprehensive eschatological accountability.

他の翻訳

ASV

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

YLT

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

BBE

God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

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