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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;{HR}That there are righteous [men],{HR}Unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;{HR}Again, there are wicked men,{HR}To whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous.{HR}I said that this also is vanity. (Eccl. 8:14)
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John 16:2• 2They will put you out of the synagogue; nay, an hour is coming that everyone who hath killed you will think that he is offering service to God. (John 16:2)
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Acts 7:59• 59and stoned Stephen, invoking 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 is grief;{HR}Yea, 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,{HR}That in all points as he came, so shall he go:{HR}And what profit hath he that laboureth for the wind?
 17All his days also he eateth in darkness,{HR}And he is sore vexed and hath sickness and irritation. (Eccl. 5:16‑17)
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Eccl. 6:12• 12For who knoweth what is good for man in life,{HR}All the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?{HR}For who can tell a 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 pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (Gen. 47:9)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
there is a just.
Eccl. 3:16• 16And moreover I saw under the sun,{HR}That in the place of judgment wickedness was there;{HR}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;{HR}That there are righteous [men],{HR}Unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;{HR}Again, there are wicked men,{HR}To whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous.{HR}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,{HR}Even to explore all this,{HR}That the righteous, and the wise,{HR}And their works, are in the hand of God:{HR}Whether it be love or hatred,{HR}Man knoweth it not; all is before them.
 2All things [come] alike to all:{HR}There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked;{HR}To the good, and to the clean and to the unclean;{HR}To him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not:{HR}As is the good, so is the sinner;{HR}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 commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
 22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died he said, Jehovah look upon it and require it. (2 Chron. 24:21‑22)
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Job 9:22‑23• 22It [is] all one: therefore I said,{HR}He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
 23If the scourge slay suddenly,{HR}He laugheth 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 will put you out of the synagogue; nay, an hour is coming that everyone who hath killed you will think that he is offering service to God. (John 16:2)
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Acts 7:52• 52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers 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,{HR}Yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God,
 13Because they fear before him:{HR}But it shall not be well with the wicked,{HR}Neither shall he prolong his [days],{HR}Which are as a shadow,{HR}Because he feareth not before God. (Eccl. 8:12‑13)
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Job 21:7‑15• 7Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth?
 8Their seed is established with them in their sight,{HR}And their issues before their eyes.
 9Their houses [are] peace, without fear,{HR}And the rod of God [is] not upon them.
 10His bull gendereth, and faileth not,{HR}His cow calveth, and miscarrieth not.
 11They send forth their sucklings as a flock,{HR}And their children frisk.
 12They lift [their voice] to timbrel and harp,{HR}And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
 13They wear out their days in prosperity,{HR}And in a moment sink [to] Sheol.
 14Yet they say to God, Depart from us,{HR}For we desired not the knowledge of thy ways:
 15What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him? (Job 21:7‑15)
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Psa. 73:3‑13• 3For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men).
 4For [there are] no pangs in their death,{HR}And their strength [is] firm (fat).
 5In the hardships of men they [are] not,{HR}And with mankind are not smitten.
 6Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
 7Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak.
 9They set their mouth in the heavens,{HR}And their tongue walketh in the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither,{HR}And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How should God (El) know?{HR}And is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance.
 13Truly in vain I have cleansed my heart{HR}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, O Jehovah, 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?
 2Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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All [this] have I seen in the days of my vanity:{HR}There is a righteous one that perisheth in his righteousness,{HR}And there is a wicked one that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.