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Ecclesiastes 8:13

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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ASV

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.

KJV

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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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְטוֹב֙ve.tOvand goodH2896 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will belongH1961 →
לָֽרָשָׁ֔עla.ra.Sha'to the wickedH7563 →
וְלֹֽא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
יַאֲרִ֥יךְya.'a.Rikhhe will prolongH748 →
יָמִ֖יםya.MimdaysH3117 →
כַּצֵּ֑לka.Tzellike <the> shadowH6738 →
אֲשֶׁ֛ר'a.SherthatH834 →
אֵינֶ֥נּוּ'ei.Ne.nunot heH369 →
יָרֵ֖אya.Re'he has fearedH3373 →
מִלִּפְנֵ֥יmi.lif.Neifrom to beforeH6440 →
אֱלֹהִֽים׃'E.lo.HimGodH430 →

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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?Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.Job 7:6–7My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.Matthew 13:49–50So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,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!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.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 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.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.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. Selah2 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.Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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