Ecclesiastes 8:10-14
1599 Geneva Bible
10 And likewise I saw the wicked buried, and [a]they returned, and they that came from the holy [b]place, were yet forgotten in the city, where they had done right: this also is vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not [c]executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and God prolongeth his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear the Lord, and do reverence before him.
13 But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days: he shall be like a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity, which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it cometh according to the [d]work of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it cometh according to the work of the just: I thought also that this is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10 That is, others as wicked as they.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 They that feared God and worshipped him according as he had appointed.
- Ecclesiastes 8:11 Where justice is delayed, there sin reigneth.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14 Which are punished as though they were wicked, as Eccl. 7:17.
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