Ecclesiastes 8:10

I saw. I have seen.

the wicked. lawless men (plural) Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

come and gone. Supply the complex Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6), "I have seen wicked men come [to the grave; and righteous men] depart [in death, Genesis 15:2] from the place of the holy, and be forgotten", &c.

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¹⁰ And 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.

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