Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

12because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;

14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous — I said that this also is vanity.

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Cross References

Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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

Psalms 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.

Psalms 39:5(39-6) Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Psalms 144:4Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Isaiah 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the work of his hands 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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