12 Are your (A)wonders known in (B)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of (C)forgetfulness?

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For the living know that they will die, but (A)the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for (B)the memory of them is forgotten.

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13 (A)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of (B)their own shame; (C)wandering stars, (D)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

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12 (A)while the sons of the kingdom (B)will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place (C)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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22 (A)And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into (B)thick darkness.

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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)

16 For of the wise as of the fool there is (A)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. (B)How the wise dies just like the fool!

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For the enemy has pursued my soul;
    (A)he has crushed my life to the ground;
    (B)he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

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like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom (A)you remember no more,
    for they are (B)cut off from your hand.

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12 I have been (A)forgotten like one who is dead;
    I have become like (B)a broken vessel.

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21 before I go—and (A)I shall not return—
    to the land of (B)darkness and (C)deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

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