Ecclesiastes 7:15

New American Bible - revised edition

I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

1 Kings 21:13

Two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and the scoundrels accused him in the presence of the people, “Naboth has cursed God and king.” And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death.

Psalm 10:3

The wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and scorn the Lord.

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Ecclesiastes 2:23

Every day sorrow and grief are their occupation; even at night their hearts are not at rest. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime; One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.

John 16:2

They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.