Ecclesiastes 8:13

Good be not to the wickid man, nethir hise daies be maad longe; but passe thei as schadewe, that dreden not the face of the Lord.

Bible (Wycliffe)

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

12Netheles of that, that a synnere doith yuel an hundrid sithis, and is suffrid bi pacience, Y knew that good schal be to men dredynge God, that reuerensen his face.

14Also another vanyte is, which is don on erthe. Iust men ben, to whiche yuels comen, as if thei diden the werkis of wickid men; and wickid men ben, that ben so sikur, as if thei han the dedis of iust men; but Y deme also this moost veyn.

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Cross References

Job 14:2Which goith out, and is defoulid as a flour; and fleeth as schadewe, and dwellith neuere perfitli in the same staat.

Job 20:5that the preisyng of wickid men is schort, and the ioie of an ypocrite is at the licnesse of a poynt.

Psalms 11:5Whiche seiden, We schulen magnyfie oure tunge, our lippis ben of vs; who is oure lord?

Psalms 39:5Blessid is the man, of whom the name of the Lord is his hope; and he bihelde not in to vanitees, and in to false woodnesses.

Psalms 144:4Generacioun and generacioun schal preise thi werkis; and thei schulen pronounse thi power.

Isaiah 3:11Wo to the wickid man in to yuel; for whi the yeldyng of hise hondis schal be maad to hym.

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