Ecclesiastes 8:13 “Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them,…”

Ecclesiastes 8:13

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

World English Bible

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

American Standard Version

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Geneva Bible 1599

But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

Darby Translation

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

Young's Literal Translation

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

Bible in Basic English

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

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Cross references

“it shall”

Isaiah 57:21 Malachi 3:18 Job 18:5 Job 20:5 Job 21:30 Psalm 11:5

Isaiah 57:21 · BSB

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

Malachi 3:18 · BSB

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Job 18:5 · BSB

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 20:5 · BSB

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 21:30 · BSB

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Psalm 11:5 · BSB

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

“neither”

Psalm 55:23 Isaiah 30:13 2 Peter 2:3

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Isaiah 30:13 · BSB

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

2 Peter 2:3 · BSB

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

“as a”

Ecclesiastes 6:12 Job 14:2 Psalm 39:5 Psalm 144:4 James 4:14 Job 7:6

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Job 14:2 · BSB

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

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

James 4:14 · BSB

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.

Job 7:6 · BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Also

Isaiah 3:11

Isaiah 3:11 · BSB

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

14There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

Read Ecclesiastes 8