KJV King James Version
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.
Surrounding context — Ecclesiastes 8
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also 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 do evil an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13 But 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וּבְכֵ֡ןH3651 · kenrightרָאִיתִי֩H7200 · ra.ahto see: seeרְשָׁעִ֨יםH7563 · ra.sahwickedקְבֻרִ֜יםH6912 · qa.varto buryוָבָ֗אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeוּמִמְּק֤וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceקָדוֹשׁ֙H6918 · qa.doshholyיְהַלֵּ֔כוּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוְיִֽשְׁתַּכְּח֥וּH7911 · sha.khachto forgetבָעִ֖ירH5892 · irexcitementאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichכֵּן־H3651 · kenrightעָשׂ֑וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doגַּם־H1571 · gamalsoזֶ֖הH2088 · zehthisהָֽבֶל׃H1892 · he.velvanity
Cross-references
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.Ecclesiastes 2:16For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.Psalm 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.2 Kings 9:34-35And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king’s daughter.Ecclesiastes 1:11[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Hebrews 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.Acts 6:13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:Job 21:32-33Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;Psalm 122:1-5A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
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