Ecclesiastes 8:10
And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
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Job 21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak 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 →