Ecclesiastes 8:10

WEB

¹⁰So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

KJV

¹⁰And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

BSB

¹⁰Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised ^[+] in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

FBV

¹⁰Yes, I have seen wicked people buried with great honor.^[+] They used to go to the holy place,^[+] and were praised in the very city where they did their evil. This is hard to understand!

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 9:5

⁵For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Proverbs 10:7

⁷The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

¹⁶For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Jeremiah 17:13

¹³LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.

Hebrews 10:38

³⁸But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Luke 16:22

²²The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

Acts 6:13

¹³and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Job 21:32-33

³²Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb. ³³The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

¹¹There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

2 Kings 9:34-35

³⁴When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

³⁵They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.