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


In Context

10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried- those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

12 Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God.

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

14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:13But 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.

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.