Ecclesiastes 8:13

American King James Version (1999)

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Job 18:5

Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Psalm 11:5

The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 37:1

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked.

Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

Malachi 3:18

Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

John 5:29

And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.

James 4:14

Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.