How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Ecclesiastes 8:10 - New Revised Standard Version Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And so I saw the wicked buried–those who had come and gone out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised and] forgotten in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility)! American Standard Version (1901) So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity. Common English Bible Then I saw the wicked brought to their graves, with people processing from a holy place, while those who had lived honestly were neglected in the city. This too is pointless. Catholic Public Domain Version I have seen the impious buried. These same, while they were still living, were in the holy place, and they were praised in the city as workers of justice. But this, too, is emptiness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity. |
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.
For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.
O hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be recorded in the underworld, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.
The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law;
but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”