How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
Ecclesiastes 8:10 - Tree of Life Version Then I saw the wicked buried—they used to come and go from the holy place, but will soon be forgotten in the very city where they did this. This too is meaningless. 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; like chaff swept away by a storm?
Because of all my adversaries I am the contempt of my neighbors and a dread to my acquaintances. Seeing me on the street, they flee from me.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
There is no remembrance for former things, and things yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
For the wise man, together with the fool, is not remembered forever. For in the days to come both will be forgotten. Alas, the wise, just like the fool, must die!
Now a poor, wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his shrewdness. Yet nobody remembered that poor man!
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, even the memory of them is forgotten.
Adonai, You are the hope of Israel! All who forsake You will be ashamed. Those who depart from You will be written in the dirt, for they have forsaken Adonai, the fountain of living waters.
“It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. Then the rich man also died and was buried.
They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking words against this holy place and the Torah.
But My righteous one shall live by emunah; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.”