13But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.


In Context

10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

12 But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

14 There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.

15 Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.