Ecclesiastes 8:14
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14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked and wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:15
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The Riddles of Life
15 In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.(A)
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Malachi 3:15
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15 Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
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14 The wise have eyes in their head,
but fools walk in darkness.
Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them 2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.(A) 3 This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.(B)
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Psalm 73:12-14
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12 Such are the wicked;
always at ease, they increase in riches.(A)
13 All in vain I have kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.(B)
14 For all day long I have been plagued
and am punished every morning.(C)
Psalm 73:3
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3 For I was envious of the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.(A)
Job 21:7
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7 Why do the wicked live on,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?(A)
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah Complains to God
12 You will be in the right, O Lord,
when I lay charges against you,
but let me put my case to you.
Why does the way of the guilty prosper?
Why do all who are treacherous thrive?(A)
Ecclesiastes 10:5
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5 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as great an error as if it proceeded from the ruler:
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.(A)
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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 one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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Job 24:21-25
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21 “They harm[a] the childless woman
and do no good to the widow.(A)
22 Yet God[b] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.(B)
23 He gives them security, and they are supported;
his eyes are upon their ways.(C)
24 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;[c]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.(D)
25 If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
Job 21:17-34
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17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does calamity come upon them?
How often does God[a] distribute pains in his anger?(A)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind
and like chaff that the storm carries away?(B)
19 You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’
Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.(C)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction,
and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.[b](D)
21 For what do they care for their household after them,
when the number of their months is cut off?
22 Will any teach God knowledge,
seeing that he judges those who are on high?(E)
23 One dies in full prosperity,
being wholly at ease and secure,
24 his loins full of milk
and the marrow of his bones moist.
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of good.
26 They lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms cover them.(F)
27 “Oh, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’(G)
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony,
30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity
and are rescued in the day of wrath?(H)
31 Who declares their way to their face,
and who repays them for what they have done?
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.(I)
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 destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)
23 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.(B)
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the eyes of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?(C)
Notas al pie
- 9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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