Ecclesiastes 8:14 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:14

14: And this is not all that is meaningless in our world. In this life, good people are often treated as though they were wicked, and wicked people are often treated as though they were good. This is so meaningless!

Ecclesiastes 7:15

  1. In this meaningless life, I have seen everything, including the fact that some good people die young and some wicked people live on and on.

Malachi 3:15

  1. From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"

Ecclesiastes 2:14

  1. For the wise person sees, while the fool is blind. Yet I saw that wise and foolish people share the same fate.

Psalms 73:3

  1. For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness.

Psalms 73:12

  1. Look at these arrogant people--enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.
  2. Was it for nothing that I kept my heart pure and kept myself from doing wrong?
  3. All I get is trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain.

Job 21:7

  1. "The truth is that the wicked live to a good old age. They grow old and wealthy.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

  1. This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no one knows whether or not God will show them favor in this life.
  2. The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether they are righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who take oaths are treated like people who don't.
  3. It seems so tragic that one fate comes to all. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.

Jeremiah 12:1

  1. LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

Ecclesiastes 4:8

  1. This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.

Job 21:17

  1. "Yet the wicked get away with it time and time again. They rarely have trouble, and God skips them when he distributes sorrows in his anger.
  2. Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm? Not at all!
  3. " `Well,' you say, `at least God will punish their children!' But I say that God should punish the ones who sin, not their children! Let them feel their own penalty.
  4. Let their own eyes see their destruction. Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
  5. For when they are dead, they will not care what happens to their family.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

  1. Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Job 24:21

  1. For they have taken advantage of the childless who have no protecting sons. They refuse to help the needy widows.
  2. "God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance in life.
  3. They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.
  4. And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, withered like heads of grain.
  5. "Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?"

Ecclesiastes 10:5

  1. There is another evil I have seen as I have watched the world go by. Kings and rulers make a grave mistake

Job 9:22

  1. Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to him. That is why I say, `He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
  2. He laughs when a plague suddenly kills the innocent.
  3. The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked, and God blinds the eyes of the judges and lets them be unfair. If not he, then who?
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