Ecclesiastes 8:13

God's Word

But it will not go well for the wicked. They will not live any longer. Their lives are like shadows, because they don’t fear God.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.

Job 18:5

“Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?

Job 21:30

On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests righteous people, but he hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Do not be preoccupied with evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will throw ⌞wicked people⌟ into the deepest pit. Bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I will trust you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I realize that whatever God does will last forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken away from it. God does this so that people will fear him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

In spite of many daydreams, pointless actions, and empty words, you should still fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who knows what may be good for mortals while they are alive, during the brief, pointless days they live? Mortals pass by like a shadow. Who will tell them about their future under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen it all in my pointless life: Righteous people die in spite of being righteous. Wicked people go on living in spite of being wicked.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It’s good to hold on to the one and not let go of the other, because the one who fears God will be able to avoid both extremes.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has the power to prevent the spirit  of life from leaving. No one has control over the day of his own death. There is no way to avoid the war ⌞against death⌟. Wickedness will not save wicked people ⌞from dying⌟.

Isaiah 3:11

How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done will be done to them.

Isaiah 30:13

That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Isaiah 57:21

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says my God.

Isaiah 65:20

There will no longer be an infant who lives for only a few days or an old man who doesn’t live a long life. Whoever lives to be a hundred years old will be thought of as young. Whoever dies before he is a hundred years old will be cursed as a sinner.

Jeremiah 44:10

You have not humbled yourselves even to this day. You haven’t feared me or lived your lives by my teachings or by my decrees that I gave your ancestors.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see the difference between righteous people and wicked people, between the one who serves God and the one who doesn’t serve him.

John 5:29

and they will come out of their tombs. Those who have done good will come back to life and live. But those who have done evil will come back to life and will be judged.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will use good-sounding arguments to exploit you. The verdict against them from long ago is still in force, and their destruction is not asleep.