Ecclesiastes 8:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Job 18:5

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

Job 20:5

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Job 21:30

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Psalm 11:5

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 37:1

Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

Isaiah 3:11

Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

Isaiah 30:13

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

John 5:29

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

James 4:14

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.