Ecclesiastes 8:14
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Man Cannot Know God's Ways
14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people (A)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people (B)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 7:15
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15 In my (A)vain[a] life I have seen everything. There is (B)a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who (C)prolongs his life in his evildoing.
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- Ecclesiastes 7:15 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Malachi 3:15
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15 And now we call (A)the arrogant blessed. (B)Evildoers not only prosper but (C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
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14 (A)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the (B)same event happens to all of them.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Death Comes to All
9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, (A)how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are (B)in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 (C)It is the same for all, since (D)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (E)swears is as he who shuns an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that (F)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and (G)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil
Psalm 73:3
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Job 21:7
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7 (A)Why do the wicked live,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah's Complaint
12 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all (C)who are treacherous thrive?
Ecclesiastes 10:5
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5 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were (A)an error proceeding from the ruler:
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his (A)eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, (B)“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy (C)business.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
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4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is (A)vanity[a] and a striving after wind.
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- Ecclesiastes 4:4 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also verses 7, 8, 16 (see note on 1:2)
Job 24:21-25
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21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
and do no good to the widow.
22 Yet God[a] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
23 He gives them security, and they are supported,
and his (A)eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted (B)a little while, and then (C)are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are (D)cut off like the heads of grain.
25 If it is (E)not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
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- Job 24:22 Hebrew he
Job 21:17-34
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17 “How often is it that (A)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
That their calamity comes upon them?
That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?
18 That they are like (B)straw before the wind,
and like (C)chaff that the storm carries away?
19 You say, ‘God (D)stores up their iniquity for their (E)children.’
Let him pay it out to them, that they may (F)know it.
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction,
and let them (G)drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what do they care for their houses after them,
when (H)the number of their months is cut off?
22 (I)Will any teach God knowledge,
seeing that he (J)judges those who are on high?
23 One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,
24 his pails[b] full of milk
and (K)the marrow of his bones moist.
25 Another dies in (L)bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of prosperity.
26 They (M)lie down alike in the dust,
and (N)the worms cover them.
27 “Behold, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
28 For you say, (O)‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is (P)the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony
30 that (Q)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31 Who declares his way (R)to his face,
and who (S)repays him for what he has done?
32 When he is (T)carried to the grave,
watch is kept over his tomb.
33 (U)The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
(V)all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
34 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
Job 9:22-24
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (B)disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.
24 (C)The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he (D)covers the faces of its judges—
(E)if it is not he, who then is it?
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- Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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