Ecclesiastes 8:10

Good News Translation

Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless.

Cross References

Job 21:18

and blow them away like straw in the wind, or like dust carried away in a storm?

Psalm 31:12

Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead; I am like something thrown away.

Proverbs 10:7

Good people will be remembered as a blessing, but the wicked will soon be forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

No one remembers what has happened in the past, and no one in days to come will remember what happens between now and then.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die—wise and foolish alike.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

Yes, the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten.

Jeremiah 17:13

Lord, you are Israel's hope; all who abandon you will be put to shame. They will disappear like names written in the dust, because they have abandoned you, the Lord, the spring of fresh water.

Luke 16:22

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,

Acts 6:13

Then they brought in some men to tell lies about him. “This man,” they said, “is always talking against our sacred Temple and the Law of Moses.

Hebrews 10:38

My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them.”