Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.

14There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.

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Cross References

Job 14:2He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

Job 20:5That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

Psalms 11:5The Lord will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate.

Psalms 39:5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

Isaiah 3:11Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen 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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