Ecclesiastes 7:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

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  • Eccl 8:12-14 : 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God. 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just 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.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.
  • Isa 65:20 : 20 No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.
  • Matt 23:34-35 : 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • 2 Chr 24:21-22 : 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power? 8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. 11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no pains in their death; but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are drained by them. 11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 13 Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  • Eccl 5:16-17 : 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind? 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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  • Eccl 8:13-14
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    13But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

    14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just 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.

  • Eccl 7:13-14
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    13Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

  • Eccl 3:16-17
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

    17I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man rules over another to his own harm.

    10Then 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 done so. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

    2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 1:14-15
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    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be counted.

  • Eccl 7:16-17
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    16Do not be overly righteous, nor make yourself overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?

    17Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish; why should you die before your time?

  • Isa 57:1
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    1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Eccl 5:16-17
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    16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

    17All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

  • Eccl 2:14-17
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    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all.

    15So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."

    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 14:32
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    32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

  • Job 21:7
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    7Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power?

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6Yes, even if he lives a thousand years twice over, yet has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 11:7
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    7When a wicked man dies, his hope shall perish, and the expectation of unjust men perishes.

  • Job 9:22
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    22This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

  • Ezek 18:24
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    24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

  • Job 7:1
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    1Is there not an appointed time for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

  • Mic 7:2
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    2The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

  • Prov 11:4-5
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    4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

    5The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Job 4:7
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    7Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

  • Ps 37:16
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    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

  • Eccl 8:6
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    6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 11:19
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    19As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.