Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen many things in my meaningless days. 1 There are righteous people who perish in spite of their righteousness, 1 and there are wicked people who live a long life in spite of their evil. 1

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All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

In Context

14When times are good, live happily in that good, 2 but when times are bad, consider this: 1 God has allowed both to exist side by side. 2 For this reason, no one will find out anything that is coming after him.

16Do not be self-righteous, 2 wise in your own eyes. 1 Why should you destroy yourself? 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 22:18Then the king said to Doeg, “Turn and kill the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests; he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod that day.

2 Chronicles 24:21But they plotted against him; at the king's command, they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.

Job 21:7Why do wicked people continue to live, 1 become old, and grow mighty in power? 1

Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks about like a shadow. 1 Surely everyone hurries about 1 to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them. 1

Ecclesiastes 2:23Every day his work is painful and stressful, so at night his soul does not find rest. This also is vapor.

Ecclesiastes 5:16Another evil is 1 that as a person comes, so he goes away. 1 So what profit is there for him who works for the wind? 1

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23

The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.… Read the whole commentary →

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