Ecclesiastes 8:11

New Living Translation

When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:15

The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”

Job 24:23

They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.

Psalm 10:4

The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead.

Psalm 10:6

They think, “Nothing bad will ever happen to us! We will be free of trouble forever!”

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

Exodus 34:6

The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out, “Yahweh! The Lord! The God of compassion and mercy! I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that relief had come, he became stubborn. He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 8:32

But Pharaoh again became stubborn and refused to let the people go.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Already twisted by evil, people choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.

Isaiah 26:10

Your kindness to the wicked does not make them do good. Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong and take no notice of the Lord’s majesty.

Isaiah 57:11

“Are you afraid of these idols? Do they terrify you? Is that why you have lied to me and forgotten me and my words? Is it because of my long silence that you no longer fear me?

Jeremiah 42:15

then hear the Lord’s message to the remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and live there,

Jeremiah 48:11

“From his earliest history, Moab has lived in peace, never going into exile. He is like wine that has been allowed to settle. He has not been poured from flask to flask, and he is now fragrant and smooth.