Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

World English Bible

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

12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

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Cross References

Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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

Psalms 11:5The LORD examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.

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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