Bible Cross References
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Ecclesiastes 2:23
As long as you live, everything you do brings nothing but worry and heartache. Even at night your mind can't rest. It is all useless.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?
Ecclesiastes 5:17
We get to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours---a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered, "My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings."
Psalm 39:6
no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.
there is a just
Ecclesiastes 3:16
In addition, I have also noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and right ought to be.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
But this is nonsense. Look at what happens in the world: sometimes the righteous get the punishment of the wicked, and the wicked get the reward of the righteous. I say it is useless.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.
1 Samuel 22:18
So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep---they were all killed.
1 Kings 21:13
The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.
2 Chronicles 24:21
King Joash joined in a conspiracy against Zechariah, and on the king's orders the people stoned Zechariah in the Temple courtyard.
2 Chronicles 24:22
The king forgot about the loyal service that Zechariah's father Jehoiada had given him, and he had Zechariah killed. As Zechariah was dying, he called out, "May the LORD see what you are doing and punish you!"
Job 9:22
(SEE 9:21)
Job 9:23
When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.
Matthew 23:34
And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
Matthew 23:35
As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
John 16:2
You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
Acts 7:52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
there is a wicked
Ecclesiastes 8:12
A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: "If you obey God, everything will be all right,
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God."
Job 21:7-15
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Why does God let evil people live, let them grow old and prosper?
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They have children and grandchildren, and live to watch them all grow up.
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God does not bring disaster on their homes; they never have to live in terror.
10
Yes, all their cattle breed and give birth without trouble.
11
Their children run and play like lambs
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and dance to the music of harps and flutes.
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They live out their lives in peace and quietly die without suffering.
14
The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.
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They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.
Psalm 73:3-13
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because I was jealous of the proud when I saw that things go well for the wicked.
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They do not suffer pain; they are strong and healthy.
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They do not suffer as other people do; they do not have the troubles that others have.
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And so they wear pride like a necklace and violence like a robe;
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their hearts pour out evil, and their minds are busy with wicked schemes.
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They laugh at other people and speak of evil things; they are proud and make plans to oppress others.
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They speak evil of God in heaven and give arrogant orders to everyone on earth,
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so that even God's people turn to them and eagerly believe whatever they say.
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They say, "God will not know; the Most High will not find out."
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That is what the wicked are like. They have plenty and are always getting more.
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Is it for nothing, then, that I have kept myself pure and have not committed sin?
Isaiah 65:20
Babies will no longer die in infancy, and all people will live out their life span. Those who live to be a hundred will be considered young. To die before that would be a sign that I had punished them.
Jeremiah 12:1
" LORD, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?
Jeremiah 12:2
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bear fruit. They always speak well of you, yet they do not really care about you.