Ecclesiastes 8:12

Even if a sinner does evil repeatedly and lives long, the Preacher is sure it will go better in the end for those who fear God. Faith holds to God's justice despite appearances.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 37:11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
• Luke 1:50His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• Eccl 7:15All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
• Ps 37:18–19Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
• Isa 3:10–11Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Eccl 3:14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
• Isa 65:20–24“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
• Prov 1:32–33For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Eccl 7:18It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don’t withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
• 1 Kgs 21:25But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• Ps 115:13He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.
• 1 Chr 16:30Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
• Ps 112:1Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
• Matt 25:41–46Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Deut 12:25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
• Eccl 5:16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
• Isa 65:13–14Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;
• 1 Kgs 22:34–35A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
• Ps 96:9Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
• Prov 13:21Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
• 1 Kgs 2:5–9“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

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