Ecclesiastes 8:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
  • Isa 57:21 : 21 There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
  • Matt 13:49-50 : 49 so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous, 50 and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
  • John 5:29 : 29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. 7 Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 8:11-12
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    11Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

    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.

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    27The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

    28The hope of the righteous `is' joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

  • 10And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

  • Isa 3:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

    11Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

  • 29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

  • Ps 1:4-6
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    4Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!

    5Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,

    6For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

  • 24The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

  • 20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

  • 10The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

  • 30The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.

  • 15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • 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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    19Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

    20For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

  • 21No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.

  • 6He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

  • 32In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

  • 5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

  • 16Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

  • 3Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

  • 10The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.

  • 22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

  • 23The fear of Jehovah `is' to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.

  • Job 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

    21Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

  • 4The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.

  • 18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

  • 5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

  • 15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • 3Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

  • 25Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.

  • 3For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.

  • 13Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

  • 7Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

  • 38And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

  • 7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • 32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • 17Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

  • 27Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

  • 7In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

  • 23The desire of the righteous `is' only good, The hope of the wicked `is' transgression.

  • 13as saith the simile of the ancients, From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.

  • 7`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

  • 7Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.