Verse 15

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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg har sett alt i mine dager med tomhet: en rettferdig mann går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, mens en ond mann lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  I mine forfengelighets dager har jeg sett alt: det finnes en rettferdig mann som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og det finnes en ugudelig mann som får leve lenge i sin ugudelighet.

• Norsk King James

  Alle ting har jeg sett i mine dager med meningsløshet: det finnes en rettferdig mann som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og det finnes en ond mann som lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  I mine forgjengelighets dager har jeg sett alt slags: en rettferdig mann som går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig som lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg har sett alt i min forgjengelighets dager. Det finnes rettferdige som dør i sin rettferdighet, og det finnes onde som forlenget livet i sin ondskap.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine fåfengs dag: En rettferdig mann som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig mann som forlenger sitt liv i sin ugudelighet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Alt har jeg erfart i mine forfengelighetstider: Det finnes en rettferdig mann som omkommer for sin rettferdighet, mens en ond mann kan forlenge sitt liv med sin ondskap.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine fåfengs dag: En rettferdig mann som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig mann som forlenger sitt liv i sin ugudelighet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine flyktige dager: Rettferdige som går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, og onde som lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine tomhetens dager: Det er en rettferdig mann som går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig mann som lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg haver seet Allehaande i min Forfængeligheds Dage; der er en Retfærdig, som omkommer i sin Retfærdighed, og der er en Ugudelig, som lever længe i sin Ondskab.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine dager av tomhet: det er en rettferdig mann som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig mann som forlenger sitt liv i sin ugudelighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine أيام av forgjengelighet: det er en rettferdig som går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, og det er en ugudelig som lever lenge i sin ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Alt har jeg sett i mine tomhetens dager: Det er en rettferdig som omkommer i sin rettferdighet, og en urettferdig som forlenger sitt liv i sin ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Alt dette har jeg sett i mine dager av tomhet: Det finnes en rettferdig mann som går til grunne i sin rettferdighet, og en ugudelig mann som forlenger sitt liv i sin onde gjerning.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  To ting har jeg sett i mitt meningsløse liv: en rettferdig mann som dør i sin rettferdighet, og en urettferdig mann hvis dager blir lange i ondskap.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  These ij. thiges also haue I cosidred in ye tyme of vanite: yt the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  All thinges haue I considered in the time of my vanitie: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnesse sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  The 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

• World English Bible (2000)

  All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

Referenced Verses

• 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.