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Ecclesiastes 8:10
Ecclesiastes 8:10 is verse 10 of Ecclesiastes chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts were soon forgotten
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 8:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
9 All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
10 Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
12 Although 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 9:34Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Job 21:32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Psalms 122:1I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Psalms 122:2Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
Psalms 122:3Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
Psalms 122:4where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
Psalms 122:5For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
Acts 6:13where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Hebrews 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”