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


In Context

10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

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

14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which 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 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 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 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.