(A)The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but (B)the name of the wicked will rot.

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The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.

For the righteous will (A)never be moved;
    (B)he will be remembered forever.

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Surely the righteous will never be shaken;(A)
    they will be remembered(B) forever.

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48 for (A)he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
    For behold, from now on all generations (B)will call me blessed;

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48 for he has been mindful
    of the humble state of his servant.(A)
From now on all generations will call me blessed,(B)

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And truly, I say to you, wherever (A)the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told (B)in memory of her.”

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Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world,(A) what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

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13 May his (A)posterity be cut off;
    may his (B)name be blotted out in the second generation!

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13 May his descendants be cut off,(A)
    their names blotted out(B) from the next generation.

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16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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16 He was buried with the kings in the City of David, because of the good he had done in Israel for God and his temple.

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15 (A)Let them be before the Lord continually,
    that he may (B)cut off the memory of them from the earth!

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15 May their sins always remain before(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(B) from the earth.

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You have (A)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have (B)blotted out their name forever and ever.
The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

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You have rebuked the nations(A) and destroyed the wicked;
    you have blotted out their name(B) for ever and ever.
Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
    you have uprooted their cities;(C)
    even the memory of them(D) has perished.

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17 His (A)memory perishes from the earth,
    and he has no name in the street.

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17 The memory of him perishes from the earth;(A)
    he has no name(B) in the land.(C)

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34 (A)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake (B)and for the sake of my servant David.”

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34 I will defend(A) this city and save it,
    for my sake and for the sake of David(B) my servant.’”

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36 Yet to his son (A)I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have (B)a lamp before me in Jerusalem, (C)the city where I have chosen to put my name.

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36 I will give one tribe(A) to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp(B) before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.

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Those Who Fear God Will Do Well

10 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of (A)the holy place and were (B)praised[a] in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts forgotten
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:10 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also twice in verse 14 (see note on 1:2)

10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried(A)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[a] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten

23 It (A)claps its hands at him
    and (B)hisses at him from its place.

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23 It claps its hands(A) in derision
    and hisses him out of his place.”(B)

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