Ecclesiastes 8:10

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Summary

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

So

2 Kings 9:34

Job 21:18

Luke 16:22

The place

Psalm 122:1

Acts 6:13

They were

Bible References

So

Then he went in, ate and drank, and said, “Take care of this cursed woman and bury her, since she’s a king’s daughter.”

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?

One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side.

The rich man also died and was buried.

The place

A Davidic song of ascents.I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

They were

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise man dies just like the fool?

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.

I am forgotten: gone from memory
like a dead person—like broken pottery.

The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.

Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who abandon You
will be put to shame.
All who turn away from Me
will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned
the Lord, the fountain of living water.

But My righteous one

will live by faith;

and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure in him.