Ecclesiastes 8:13

New American Bible - revised edition

and that it shall not be well with the wicked, who shall not prolong their shadowy days, for their lack of reverence toward God.

Cross References

Job 14:2

Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Job 18:5

Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire casts no light.

Job 20:5

The triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the impious but for a moment?

Job 21:30

On the day of calamity the evil man is spared, on the day that wrath is released.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, hates those who love violence,

Psalm 144:4

Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Of David. Do not be provoked by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.

Psalm 39:5

Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

Psalm 55:23

Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

If you see oppression of the poor, and violation of rights and justice in the realm, do not be astonished by the fact, for the high official has another higher than he watching him and above these are others higher still—.

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 7:15

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good to hold to this rule, and not to let that one go; but the one who fears God will succeed with both.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one is master of the breath of life so as to retain it, and none has mastery of the day of death. There is no exemption in wartime, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It will go ill with them, with the work of their hands they will be repaid.

Isaiah 30:13

This iniquity of yours shall be like a descending rift Bulging out in a high wall whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the wicked! says my God.

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.

Jeremiah 44:10

To this day they have not been crushed down, nor have they shown fear. They have not followed my law and my statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again distinguish between the just and the wicked, Between the person who serves God, and the one who does not.

John 5:29

and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction does not sleep. Lessons from the Past.