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Ecclesiastes 8:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life,  I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people,  for they are reverent before him.

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then the Lord knows how to rescue  the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement,


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.


I know that everything God does will last for ever; there is no adding to it or taking from it.  God works so that people will be in awe of him.


And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience  objects of wrath prepared for destruction?


His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear him.


Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath  for yourself in the day of wrath,  when God’s righteous judgement is revealed.


Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; inherit the kingdom   prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


It is good that you grasp the one and do not let the other slip from your hand. For the one who fears God will end up with both of them.


This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?


Disaster pursues sinners, but good rewards the righteous.


let the whole earth tremble  before him. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.


Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.


Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.


So God was good to the midwives,  and the people multiplied and became very numerous.


Keep his statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.’


Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper for ever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.


For many dreams bring futility; so do many words.  Therefore, fear God.


When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: fear God  and keep his commands, because this is for all  humanity.


But now, because God’s anger does not punish and he does not pay attention to transgression,


Happy is the one who is always reverent, but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.


They have not become humble to this day, and they have not feared or followed my instruction or my statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.





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