Ecclesiastes 8:14

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Summary

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

A vanity

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Ecclesiastes 10:5

There be just

Bible References

A vanity

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

There be just

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger,

He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.