Ecclesiastes 8:10

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
  • Eccl 1:11 : 11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
  • 2 Kgs 9:34-35 : 34 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter." 35 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
  • Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
  • Ps 122:1-5 : 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!" 2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem; 3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together; 4 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh. 5 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

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    14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

  • Eccl 3:15-20
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    15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

    17I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

    18I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

    19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15All this have I 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.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
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    13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 2:15-21
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    15Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

    17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

    18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

    19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

    2All 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.

    3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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    7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

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    2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

    4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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    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.

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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

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    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

  • Eccl 9:5-6
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    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:2
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    2"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

  • Eccl 3:10
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    10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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    5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

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    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Ps 49:10
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    10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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    10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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    4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

    17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

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    17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.