Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well for a wicked man; his life will not be prolonged. His days are like a fleeting shadow because he does not honor 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

12Even though a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives a long time, yet I know that it will be better for those who respect God, for those who stand before him and show him respect.

14There is another useless vapor—something else that is done on the earth. Things happen to righteous people as they happen to wicked people, and things happen to wicked people as they happen to righteous people. I say that this also is useless vapor.

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Cross References

Job 14:2He sprouts from the ground like a flower and is cut down; 1 he flees like a shadow and does not last. 1

Job 20:5the triumph of a wicked man is short, 1 and the joy of a godless man lasts only for a moment? 1

Psalms 11:5Yahweh examines both the righteous and the wicked, 1 but he hates those who love to do violence. 1

Psalms 39:5See, you have made my days only the width of my hand, 1 and my lifetime is like nothing before you. 1 Surely every man is a single breath. Selah 1

Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; 1 his days are like a passing shadow. 1

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! It will go badly for him, for the recompense of his hands will be done to him. 1

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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