Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

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In The King James Version

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

In Context

12Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that

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Cross References

Job 14:2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

Psalms 11:5LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence.

Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalms 144:4Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:10-14

The Evil of Oppressive Rulers. 9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner do… Read the whole commentary →

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