Ecclesiastes · Ecclesiastes 8
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
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The verses immediately either side, within Ecclesiastes 8.
Before
12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
After
14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous 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.
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