Ecclesiastes 8:10
And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from [the] holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.
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Job 21:18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalms 31:12I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous [man] shall be blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?
Jeremiah 17:13Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
Acts 6:13And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;
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 →