Ecclesiastes 8:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not 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

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

Job 18:5

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

Job 20:5

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

Job 21:30

that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to 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 that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.

Malachi 3:18

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

John 5:29

and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.