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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• 7Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth? (Job 21:7)
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Psa. 73:14• 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings. (Psa. 73:14)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:15)

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a vanity.
Eccl. 4:4,8• 4Then I saw all labour and every skilful work,{HR}That for this a man is envied of his neighbour.{HR}This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
 8There is one, and he hath not a second;{HR}Yea, he hath neither son nor brother;{HR}Yet is there no end of all his labour,{HR}Neither is his eye satisfied with riches.{HR}For whom then, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good?{HR}This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. (Eccl. 4:4,8)
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Eccl. 9:3• 3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)
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Eccl. 10:5• 5There is an evil I have seen under the sun,{HR}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,{HR}And the fool walketh in darkness:{HR}And yet I 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:{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. (Eccl. 7:15)
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Eccl. 9:1‑3• 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.
 3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:1‑3)
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Job 9:22‑24• 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.
 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked,{HR}The face of the judges he veileth:{HR}If not then, who [is] he? (Job 9:22‑24)
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Job 21:17‑34• 17How oft is the lamp of the wicked put out,{HR}And their destruction cometh upon them —{HR}Torments he appointeth in his anger!
 18They are as straw before wind,{HR}And as chaff a whirlwind stealeth.
 19God layeth up his iniquity for his children,{HR}He repayeth him, and he knoweth [it].
 20His own eyes see his blow,{HR}And he drinketh of the wrath of the Almighty.
 21For what delight [hath] he in his house after him,{HR}When the number of his months is cut off?
 22Shall [one] teach God [El] knowledge,{HR}And he nevertheless judgeth the righteous?
 23This [man] dieth in the fullness of his strength,{HR}Altogether at ease, and quiet;
 24His troughs are full of milk,{HR}And the marrow of his bones is soaked.
 25And this [man] dieth with a bitter soul,{HR}And hath not eaten of the good.
 26Together they lie down in the dust.{HR}And the worm covereth them over
 27Lo! I know your thoughts,{HR}And the plots ye do violently against me.
 28For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince?{HR}And where the tent of the habitations of the wicked?
 29Have ye not asked the passers-by?{HR}And their signs do ye not know?
 30To a day of destruction the wicked is spared,{HR}To a day of great wrath they are led off.
 31Who to his face declareth his way,{HR}And who requiteth him what he hath done?
 32And he, to the graves he is brought,{HR}And over the heap he keepeth watch.
 33Sweet to him are the clods of the valley,{HR}And after him draweth everybody.{HR}And [there is] no counting before him.
 34How vainly then ye comfort me!{HR}Your answers remain falsehood. (Job 21:17‑34)
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Job 24:21‑25• 21He devoureth the barren that beareth not,{HR}And doeth the widow no good.
 22And he hath drawn the mighty by his power,{HR}He riseth, and none believeth in life.
 23He [God] giveth confidence to him, and he is supported;{HR}And his eyes are on their ways.
 24High they are a little while, and are not,{HR}And they sink; like all they are shut up,{HR}And are cut off, like the topping ears of corn.
 25And if not so now, who proveth me a liar,{HR}And maketh my word nought? (Job 24:21‑25)
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Psa. 73:13‑14• 13Truly in vain I have cleansed my heart{HR}And washed my hands in innocency;
 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings. (Psa. 73:13‑14)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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There 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.