Ecclesiastes 8:14

New American Bible - revised edition

This is a vanity that occurs on earth: There are those who are just but are treated as though they had done evil, and those who are wicked but are treated as though they had done justly. This, too, I say is vanity.

Cross References

Job 1:22

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with wrong.

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked keep on living, grow old, become mighty in power?

Job 27:12

Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!

Psalm 73:3

Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 10:5

I have seen under the sun another evil, like a mistake that proceeds from a tyrant:

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and skillful work is the rivalry of one person with another. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

those all alone with no companion, with neither child nor sibling—with no end to all their toil, and no satisfaction from riches. For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things? This also is vanity and a bad business.

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.

Jeremiah 12:1

You would be in the right, O Lord, if I should dispute with you; even so, I must lay out the case against you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, why do all the treacherous live in contentment?

Malachi 3:15

But we call the arrogant blessed; for evildoers not only prosper but even test God and escape.”