Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked: he shall be like a shadow, and shall not prolong his days, because he feareth not 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

12But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and have his days prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him.

14There is a vanity which taketh place upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked, and that there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said, “This also is vanity!”

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Cross References

Job 14:2He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job 20:5The triumphing of the wicked hath been short, And the joy of the impious but for a moment?

Psalms 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous; But the wicked, and the lover of violence, his soul hateth.

Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth, And my life is as nothing before thee; Yea, every man in his firmest state is altogether vanity. [[Pause.]]

Psalms 144:4Man is like a vapor; His day is like a shadow that passeth away.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, For the work of his hands shall be repaid 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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