Ecclesiastes 8:13 - The Scriptures 2009

But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not [reverently] fear and worship God. [Matt. 25:41.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

But it will not go well for the wicked; they won’t live long at all because they aren’t reverent before God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

So, may it not go well with the impious, and may his days not be prolonged. And let those who do not fear the face of the Lord pass away like a shadow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 18:5

Indeed, the light of the wrong goes out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

Job 20:5

that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?

Job 21:30

That the wicked is kept for the day of calamity. They are brought to the day of wrath.

Psalm 11:5

יהוה tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Aleph Do not fret because of evil-doers, Do not be envious of the workers of unrighteousness.

Psalm 39:5

See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”

Psalm 55:23

For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever Elohim does is forever. There is no adding to it, and there is no taking from it. Elohim does it, that men should fear before Him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in much dreaming and many words there is futility. But fear Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen it all in my days of futility: There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong one living long in his evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this, and also not withhold your hand from the other. For he who fears Elohim comes forth with all of them.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it.

Isaiah 3:11

“Woe to the wrong – evil! For the reward of his hand is done to him.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this crookedness is to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, swiftly.”

Isaiah 57:21

“There is no peace,” said my Elohim, “for the wrong.”

Isaiah 65:20

“No more is an infant from there going to live but a few days, nor an old man who does not complete his days, for the youth dies one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be lightly esteemed.

Jeremiah 44:10

To this day they have not been humbled, nor have they feared, nor have they walked in My Torah and in My laws that I set before you and your fathers.’

Malachi 3:18

“Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him.

John 5:29

and shall come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil matters, to a resurrection of judgment.

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.