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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13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God,(A) it will not go well with them, and their days(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.

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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)

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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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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11 Woe to the wicked!(A)
    Disaster(B) is upon them!
They will be paid back(C)
    for what their hands have done.(D)

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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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They spring up like flowers(A) and wither away;(B)
    like fleeting shadows,(C) they do not endure.(D)

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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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18 And you will again see the distinction between the righteous(A) and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.(B)

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

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

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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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In their greed(A) these teachers will exploit you(B) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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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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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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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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29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.(A)

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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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49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous(A) 50 and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(B)

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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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13 this sin will become for you
    like a high wall,(A) cracked and bulging,
    that collapses(B) suddenly,(C) 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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They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

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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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23 But you, God, will bring down the wicked
    into the pit(A) of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful(B)
    will not live out half their days.(C)

But as for me, I trust in you.(D)

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