Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
New American Standard Bible
But it will
King James Version
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Holman Bible
However, it will not go well with the wicked,
International Standard Version
But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.
A Conservative Version
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
American Standard Version
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Amplified
But it will not be well for the evil man, nor will he lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.
Bible in Basic English
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Darby Translation
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
Julia Smith Translation
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
King James 2000
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
Modern King James verseion
But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.
NET Bible
But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
New Heart English Bible
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
The Emphasized Bible
but, well, shall it not be to the lawless man, neither shall he lengthen out his days like a shadow, - because he standeth not in awe before God.
Webster
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
World English Bible
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 8:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Although Evil Is Not Punished Swiftly, God Does Eventually Punish Sinners
12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and prolonging himself for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him. 13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God. 14 There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.
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Cross References
Job 14:2
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Job 7:6-7
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 18:5
Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
Job 20:5
That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Job 21:30
That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
Psalm 11:5
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
Psalm 39:5
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
Psalm 55:23
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
Psalm 144:4
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
Isaiah 30:13
Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
Isaiah 57:21
There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!
Malachi 3:18
And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
Matthew 13:49-50
so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,
John 5:29
and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
James 4:14
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.