Ecclesiastes 8:13

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

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

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

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

When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

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

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.