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Ecclesiastes 8

Eccl. 8:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 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'}
which is done
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
upon the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
; that there be just
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
men, unto whom it happeneth
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
according to the work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of the 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
; again, there be
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
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
men, to whomo it happeneth
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
according to the work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of the righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
: I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
that this also
gam (Hebrew #1571)
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
KJV usage: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and , but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
Pronounce: gam
Origin: by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather
is 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'}
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Job 21:7• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? (Job 21:7)
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Psa. 73:14• 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. (Psa. 73:14)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. (Mal. 3:15)

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a vanity.
Eccl. 4:4,8• 4And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
 8There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation. (Eccl. 4:4,8)
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Eccl. 9:3• 3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)
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Eccl. 10:5• 5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error that proceedeth from the ruler: (Eccl. 10:5)
there be just.
Eccl. 2:14• 14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all. (Eccl. 2:14)
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Eccl. 7:15• 15All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness. (Eccl. 7:15)
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Eccl. 9:1‑3• 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.
 3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:1‑3)
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Job 9:22‑24• 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.
 24The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked man; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it? (Job 9:22‑24)
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Job 21:17‑34• 17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?
 18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
 19+God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:
 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
 21For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
 22Can any teach *God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
 23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
 24His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
 25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
 26Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
 27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
 28For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
 29Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
 30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
 32Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
 33The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
 34How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious. (Job 21:17‑34)
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Job 24:21‑25• 21He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
 22He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
 23God setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
 24They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
 25If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? (Job 24:21‑25)
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Psa. 73:13‑14• 13Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. (Psa. 73:13‑14)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. (Mal. 3:15)
• Yes, man’s soul must be, if left to the light of nature, like that nature itself. If the sky be ever and always cloudless, then may a calm and unbroken faith be expected, when based on things seen. But it is not so. Storm and cloud again and again darken the light of nature, whether that light be physical or moral; and under these storms and clouds reason is swayed from her highest and best conclusions; and the contradictions without, are faithfully reflected within the soul. (“Ecclesiastes 8” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There 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.