Ecclesiastes 8:13

Read in context

Ecclesiastes 8:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

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.

14 There 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.

15 So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Ecclesiastes 8:13

Read the commentary on Ecclesiastes 8

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 18:5

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

Job 20:5

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

Job 21:30

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

Psalms 11:5

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

Isaiah 57:21

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

Malachi 3:18

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

Matthew 13:49

So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,

Matthew 13:50

and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

John 5:29

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Psalms 55:23

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

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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 7:6

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

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 14:2

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

Psalms 39:5

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

Psalms 144:4

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

James 4:14

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.