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Ecclesiastes 7:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In my futile life  I have seen everything:  someone righteous perishes in spite of his righteousness,  and someone wicked lives long in spite of his evil.

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For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?


Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?  They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers  you have now become.


In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only a few days, or an old man not live out his days. Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old will be mourned as a young man, and the one who misses a hundred years will be considered cursed.


Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting  life,  which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle  under the sun.


I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgement and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.


For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;  even at night, his mind does not rest.  This too is futile.


The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, ‘Naboth has cursed God and the king! ’ So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.


Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage  has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard,  and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’


They will ban you from the synagogues.   In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service   to God.





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