Ecclesiastes 8:13

New International Version

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

Cross References

Job 14:2

They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

Job 18:5

“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.

Job 20:5

that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?

Psalm 11:5

The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

Psalm 55:23

But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

Isaiah 30:13

this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 57:21

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

Isaiah 65:20

“Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your ancestors.

Malachi 3:18

And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

John 5:29

and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.