Ecclesiastes 8:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I saw the wicked buried with honour, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten. None of this makes sense.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often does he strike them like a storm that scatters straw?

Psalm 31:12

I am completely forgotten like someone dead. I am merely a broken dish.

Proverbs 10:7

Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

No one who lived in the past is remembered any more, and everyone yet to be born will be forgotten too.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

Wise or foolish, we all die and are soon forgotten.”

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But the city was saved by the wisdom of a poor person who was soon forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

We know that we will die, but the dead don't know a thing. Nothing good will happen to them—they are gone and forgotten.

Jeremiah 17:13

You are a spring of water giving Israel life and hope. But if the people reject what you have told me, they will be swept away like words written in dust.

Luke 16:22

The poor man died, and angels took him to the place of honour next to Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

Acts 6:13

Some men agreed to tell lies about Stephen, and they said, “This man keeps on saying terrible things about this holy temple and the Law of Moses.

Hebrews 10:38

The people God accepts will live because of their faith. But he isn't pleased with anyone who turns back.”