Ecclesiastes 8:13

New King James Version

But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 18:5

“The light of the wicked indeed goes out, And the flame of his fire does not shine.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

Job 21:30

For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom; They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:1

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But fear God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen everything in my days of vanity: There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you grasp this, And also not remove your hand from the other; For he who fears God will escape them all.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 57:21

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

Isaiah 65:20

“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.’

Malachi 3:18

Then you shall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him.

John 5:29

and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 2:3

By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.