Ecc 8:13
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.
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For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}
Woe unto the wicked! {it shall be} ill {with him}: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. {given...: Heb. done to him}
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
{There is} no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}
Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. {wrath: Heb. wraths}
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Woe unto the wicked! {it shall be} ill {with him}: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. {given...: Heb. done to him}
For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, {to} the right hand, or {to} the left: to the end that he may prolong {his} days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah {until} thou comest to Shur, that {is} over against Egypt.
This {is} the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, {which} they shall receive of the Almighty.
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked {man}, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked {man} shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.