Ecclesiastes 8:10
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God’s Ways Are Inscrutable
10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
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Proverbs 10:7
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7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)
Hebrews 10:38
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38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(A)
Acts 6:13
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13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(A)
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Luke 16:22
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22 The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.[a] The rich man also died and was buried.(A)
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- 16.22 Gk to Abraham’s bosom
Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,[b]
for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:11
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11 The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Psalm 122:1-5
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Psalm 122
Song of Praise and Prayer for Jerusalem
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”(A)
2 Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem—built as a city
that is bound firmly together.(B)
4 To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord,
as was decreed for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.(C)
5 For there the thrones for judgment were set up,
the thrones of the house of David.(D)
Psalm 31:12
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12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.(A)
Job 21:32-33
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32 When they are carried to the grave,
a watch is kept over their tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to them;
everyone will follow after,
and those who went before are innumerable.(A)
Job 21:18
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18 How often are they like straw before the wind
and like chaff that the storm carries away?(A)
2 Kings 9:34-35
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34 Then he went in and ate and drank; he said, “See to that cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”(A) 35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
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