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Ecclesiastes 7

Eccl. 7:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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All things have I seen
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
in the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of my vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
: there is
yesh (Hebrew #3426)
entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV usage: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
Pronounce: yaysh
Origin: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist
a a just
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
man that perisheth
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
in his righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
, and there is a wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
man that prolongeth
'arak (Hebrew #748)
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-)long, + (out-, over-)live, tarry (long).
Pronounce: aw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
b his life in his wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
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Eccl. 8:14• 14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. (Eccl. 8:14)
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John 16:2• 2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God; (John 16:2)
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Acts 7:59• 59And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:59)
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Isa. 65:20• 20There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. (Isa. 65:20)

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Eccl. 2:23• 23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:23)
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Eccl. 5:16‑17• 16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
 17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation. (Eccl. 5:16‑17)
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Eccl. 6:12• 12For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)
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Gen. 47:9• 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. (Gen. 47:9)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
there is a just.
Eccl. 3:16• 16And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there. (Eccl. 3:16)
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Eccl. 8:14• 14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. (Eccl. 8:14)
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Eccl. 9:1‑2• 1For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
 2All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. (Eccl. 9:1‑2)
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1 Sam. 22:18‑19• 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
 19And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. (1 Sam. 22:18‑19)
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1 Kings 21:13• 13And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. (1 Kings 21:13)
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2 Chron. 24:21‑22• 21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
 22And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah see and require it! (2 Chron. 24:21‑22)
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Job 9:22‑23• 22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
 23If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent. (Job 9:22‑23)
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Matt. 23:34‑35• 34Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
 35so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (Matt. 23:34‑35)
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John 16:2• 2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God; (John 16:2)
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Acts 7:52• 52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers! (Acts 7:52)
there is a wicked.
Eccl. 8:12‑13• 12Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;
 13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God. (Eccl. 8:12‑13)
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Job 21:7‑15• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
 8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
 9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
 10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
 11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
 12They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
 13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
 14And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:7‑15)
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Psa. 73:3‑13• 3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
 4For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
 5They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:
 6Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
 7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
 9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
 13Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency: (Psa. 73:3‑13)
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Isa. 65:20• 20There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. (Isa. 65:20)
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Jer. 12:1‑2• 1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
 2Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:1‑2)
• These alternations of adversity and prosperity, he says, whilst there is no forecasting when they will come, so there seems to be no safeguard, even in righteousness and wisdom, against them. They are not meted out here at all on the lines of righteousness. (“Ecclesiastes 7” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth byd his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days byd his wickedness.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "in."