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Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 8 · verses 12–13 · King James Version
12Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: 13But 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.Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 in context
10And 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.
11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13But 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.
14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- prolongedʼârakto be longH748 →
- sinnerchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- shadowtsêlshade, whether literal or figurativeH6738 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- timesmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- knowyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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