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 sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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

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

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

There is a just

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For all this I took to heart, even to make all this clear, 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 is before them.

And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests. And on that day he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

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

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

It is One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.

Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;

They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

There is a wicked

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days be made longer, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.

For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

There will not be an infant, nor an old man that has not filled his days. For the child will die a hundred years old; but the sinner who is a hundred years old will be despised.

Righteous are You, O Jehovah, that I might contend with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal treacherously?

General references

This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.