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.
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Ecclesiastes 8:14 · 14 connections
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The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
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 man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. …
End of linked passage: Ecclesiastes 9:3Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 73:14This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. …
End of linked passage: Job 9:24How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. …
End of linked passage: Job 21:34He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. …
End of linked passage: Job 24:25Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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