Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 verse 14 Holy Bible
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
read chapter 12 in ASV
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
read chapter 12 in BBE
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
read chapter 12 in DARBY
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
read chapter 12 in KJV
read chapter 12 in WBT
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
read chapter 12 in WEB
For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'
read chapter 12 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - The great duty just named is here grounded upon the solemn truth of a future judgment. For God shall bring every work into judgment. It will then be seen whether this obligation has been 'attended to or not. The judgment has already been mentioned (Ecclesiastes 11:9); it is here more emphatically set forth as a certain fact and a strong motive power. The old theory of earthly retribution had been shown to break down under the experience of practical life; the anomalies which perplexed men's minds could only be solved and remedied by a future judgment under the eye of the omniscient and unerring God. With every secret thing. The Syriac adds, "and manifest thing." The Septuagint renders, "with everything that has been overlooked" - a very terrible, but true, thought. The doctrine that the most secret things shall be revealed in the dies irae is often brought forward in the New Testament, which makes plain the personal nature of this final investigation, which the earlier Scriptures invest with a more general character (see Romans 2:16; Romans 14:12; 1 Corinthians 4:5). So this wonderful book closes with the enunciation of a truth found nowhere else so clearly defined in the Old Testament, and thus opens the way to the clearer light shed upon the awful future by the revelation of the gospel.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Considering that the book is filled with complaints of the imperfection of earthly retribution, this announcement of a tribunal, at which "every work," "every secret thing," shall be brought into judgment, cannot be reasonably understood of anything but a judgment after this life; so that this book, after all its sceptical debatings, ends by enunciating, more distinctly than is done elsewhere in the Old Testament, the New Testament doctrine of a day when God shall judge the secrets of men (Romans 2:16), shall bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts (1Corinthians 4:5).
