Ecclesiastes 8:10
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
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Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalms 31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
Jeremiah 17:13LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.
Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
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 →