36 occurrences in 13 translations

'Evil' in the Bible

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Verse ConceptsWeariness Of LifeUseless EndeavourUnder The Sunfootball

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsUseless EndeavourWisdomTragedySuccess And Hard WorkEnjoying LifelegacyhardworkFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunInjusticeSunfairnesswickedness

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfComfortless LivesWeariness Of LifeOppressorsNo ComfortUnder The Sunoppressionoverworking

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunBabies Sinful From Birth

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Verse ConceptsFormalityGod's DwellingThe Work Of FoolsCare Of FeetSacrificeFoolsGoing To ChurchListening To GodfootstepsbehaviorevangelisingGuarding Yourself

Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingMistakesGod Angry With IndividualsErrorGuiltMaking MistakesSpeechjoking

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsMisersHoardingStoring Treasure On EarthUnder The SunTragedy

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunTragedy

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Righteous PerishingBad DaysDoing The Right ThingEnjoying Life

Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaEarly DeathFools Becoming WiseDeathAssisted Suicide

I committed myself to understand, to learn, to search for wisdom and explanations, and to understand both the evil that is foolishness and the stupidity that is delusion.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingStudying Insanity

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

Verse ConceptsFall Of ManInventionsMan, Creation OfPerfection Of CreationMorality

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Verse ConceptsAuthorityTurning Against MenThe Presence Of God

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Verse ConceptsThe Right TimeWhat Manner?Man's Wisdom

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Verse ConceptsUniversality Of DeathEuthanasiaCoping With DeathHow Death Is InevitableEvil And FreedomPrinciples Of WarSalvation By Other ThingsDeathstruggleWarGod Being In Controlpractice

All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

Verse ConceptsLording ItUnder The SunHurt

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Verse ConceptsSecurity, FalseDivine DelaysPunishmentPunishmentsPunishment of the The WickedExerciseconsequences

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

Verse ConceptsOne HundredLiving LongWork EthicEthics

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

Verse ConceptsNo Fear Of GodTime PassingFearing God

There is futility which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked. On the other hand, there are evil men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this too is futility.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless EndeavourProsperity Of The WickedThe Righteous PerishingTaking Care Of The Earth

Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Verse ConceptsApparent InjusticeNot Swearing OathsClean And Unclean

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto 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.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPeople Acting MadlyTragedyfate

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Verse ConceptsDisastersThe Right TimeThe Insecurity Of The WickedWithheld KnowledgeSudden DestructionSudden EventsUnreadinessNot Knowing The FutureGod TrappingBad DaysHard TimesBirdsGod's TimingTragedyGods TimingFishGetting Through Hard Timessurprises

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor;'so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Verse ConceptsFliesflyingbugs

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

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunErrorTragedy

The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly,but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

Verse ConceptsVain TalkBeginning And EndPeople Acting Madly

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsWithheld KnowledgeFinancesSaving Moneyinvestingriskempowerment

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