What Does Ecclesiastes 8:12 Mean?

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“Though a sinner”

properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn

“do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“evil”

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

“an hundred times”

a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction

“and his days be prolonged”

to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“yet surely I know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

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who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“that it shall be well”

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good

“which fear”

to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten

“God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“which fear”

to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi