13 But it will (A)not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like (B)a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

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12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his (A)vain[a] life, which he passes like (B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be (C)after him under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:12 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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He comes out like (A)a flower and (B)withers;
    he flees like (C)a shadow and continues not.

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18 Then once more you shall (A)see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

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21 (A)There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

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And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

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29 and come out, (A)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

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49 So it will be at (A)the end of the age. The angels will come out and (B)separate the evil from the righteous 50 (C)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place (D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    (A)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

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(A)Man is like a breath;
    his days are like (B)a passing (C)shadow.

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23 But you, O God, (A)will cast them down
    into (B)the pit of destruction;
men of (C)blood and treachery
    shall not (D)live out half their days.
But I will (E)trust in you.

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

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The Lord (A)tests the righteous,
    but (B)his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

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30 that (A)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
    that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

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(A)that the exulting of the wicked is short,
    and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

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“Indeed, (A)the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of his fire does not shine.

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My days are (A)swifter than (B)a weaver's shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.

“Remember that my life is a (C)breath;
    my eye will never again see good.

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