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

When he came in, he ate and drank, and said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

Now it happened that the poor man died and his spirit was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom (paradise); and the rich man also died and was buried.

The place

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the Law [of Moses];

They were

For there is no [more] lasting remembrance of the wise man than of the fool, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. And how does the wise man die? Even as the fool!

For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they no longer have a reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

The memory of the righteous [person] is a [source of] blessing,
But the name of the wicked will [be forgotten and] rot [like a corpse].

O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who abandon You will be shamed.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.