# General Information

This chapter explains that there is one thing that awaits all people: judgment. When people die, they will all face Yahweh's judgment. The ULB sets poetry (9:2, 5-6, and 11-12) farther to the right to show that it is poetry.

# all of this I laid to my heart

"I thought very deeply about all this"

# in the hand of God

"under God's control"

# whether love or hate awaits him

"whether he will experience love or hate"