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Ecclesiastes 7:15

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.

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Ecclesiastes 7:15 in other translations

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 lives long in his evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 7:15 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 7:15 in context

  1. 13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
  2. 14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.
  3. 15All 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.
  4. 16Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
  5. 17Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?