Ecclesiastes 8:13

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

Young's Literal Translation

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 is doing evil a hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also [is] vanity.

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Cross References

Job 14:2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Psalms 11:5Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Psalms 39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.

Psalms 144:4Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked — evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to 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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