Ecclesiastes 8:13

So, may it not go well with the impious, and may his days not be prolonged. And let those who do not fear the face of the Lord pass away like a shadow.

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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

12But although a sinner may do evil of himself one hundred times, and by patience still endure, I realize that it will be well with those who fear God, who revere his face.

14There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are the just, to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the impious. And there are the impious, who are very secure, as though they possess the deeds of the just. But this, too, I judge to be a very great vanity.

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Cross References

Job 14:2He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.

Job 20:5that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

Psalms 11:5They have said: “We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. What is Lord to us?”

Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.

Psalms 144:4Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the impious man immersed in evil! For retribution will be given to him from his own hands.

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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