Ecclesiastes 8:13
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Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
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For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.