Ecclesiastes 7:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Have i

Psalm 39:6

There is a just

There is a wicked

Jeremiah 12:1

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:13

Bible References

Have i

For all his days are only sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.

There is a just

And moreover I saw under the sun that instead of judgment, there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

There is another vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are just men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, who are recompensed as if they had done according to the work of the righteous; I say that this also is vanity.

Certainly I applied my heart unto all of this that I might declare all of this: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; no man knows either love or hatred by all that passes before them.

Then the king said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day eighty-five men that wore a linen ephod.

Then the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him; and those men of Belial witnessed against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died.

And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

They shall put you out of the synagogues, and the hour will even come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.

Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,

There is a wicked

Though a sinner does evil one hundred times and his judgment is prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those that fear God, who fear before his presence;

Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

For I became angry against the foolish when I saw the peace of the wicked.

There shall no longer be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days, for the child shall die one hundred years old; and he who sins at one hundred years of age shall be accursed.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.

General references

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, which is important unto me: