Ecclesiastes 8:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 18:5

“Surely the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of their fire does not shine.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity and are rescued in the day of wrath?

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers,

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words, but fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of the one without letting go of the other, for the one who fears God shall succeed with both.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.

Isaiah 65:20

No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days or an old person who does not live out a lifetime, for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have shown no contrition or fear to this day, nor have they walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your ancestors.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

John 5:29

and will come out: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.