Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
In my futile life
New American Standard Bible
I have seen everything during my
King James Version
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
International Standard Version
I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.
A Conservative Version
All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.
American Standard Version
All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.
Amplified
I have seen everything during my [fleeting] days of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in [spite of] his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who
Bible in Basic English
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Darby Translation
All 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.
Julia Smith Translation
I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.
King James 2000
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have seen all these things in my vain life: Sometimes a righteous man perishes in [spite of] his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked man lives a long life in [spite of] his evil.
Modern King James verseion
All things I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs life in his wickedness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.
NET Bible
During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.
New Heart English Bible
All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
The Emphasized Bible
Everything, had I seen, in my days of vanity, - Here was a righteous man, perishing in his righteousness, and there was a lawless man, continuing long in his wickedness.
Webster
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
World English Bible
All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
Youngs Literal Translation
The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:15
Prayers for Ecclesiastes 7:15
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The Law Of Retribution Does Not Always Work'But It Does Sometimes
14
In the day of prosperity be joyful,
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:12-14
Although a sinner commits crime a hundred times and prolongs his life,
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage
1 Samuel 22:18-19
So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men
1 Kings 21:13
The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
Job 9:22-23
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”
Job 21:7-15
growing old and becoming powerful?
Psalm 39:6
Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.
Psalm 73:3-13
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;
Ecclesiastes 3:16
I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 5:16-17
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting
Isaiah 65:20
only a few days,
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,
and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?
Matthew 23:34-35
John 16:2
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?