Ecclesiastes 8:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.”
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“Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 8:13 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
- Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalms 37:1Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Isaiah 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
- Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- Isaiah 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Jeremiah 44:10To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
- Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Matthew 13:49So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
- John 5:29and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
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