The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall 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.

Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

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

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48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall 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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Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial 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 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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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, both toward God, and toward 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 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may 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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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

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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 remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have 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 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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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 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

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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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10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

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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 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his 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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