Ecclesiastes 8:14
"There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity."
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- Ecclesiastes 7:15
"All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:14
"The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 3:15
"And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 9:1
"For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 73:3
"For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
Read in chapter → - Job 21:7
"Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 73:12
"Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches."
Read in chapter → - Job 21:17
"How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 12:1
"Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?"
Read in chapter → - Job 9:22
"This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked."
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