addition= (besides its being a wicked mistake, a sin which it is always folly to commit) =knowing am I= (_i.e._ ‘I do know, notwithstanding appearances’) =this= also, =it will be a good to the fearers of God who= (but full relative repeated, and so with the meaning ‘because they are those who’) =fear= (emphatic, with double _jud_) =before him.= 13 But it shall not be well │ just because they do fear with the wicked, neither shall │ before Him; and that it cannot he prolong _his_ days, _which │ be good to the impious man, and are_ as a shadow; because he │ he will not prolong his days, feareth not before God. │ even like a shadow, because he │ is _not_ one who fears before │ God. (13.) =And good= (repeated, ‘but good’) =it will not be to an impious= person (or act) =and he will not cause to prolong days as a shadow= (he does not prolong his days; they are prolonged indeed sometimes by Divine providence in His inscrutable decrees, and they are as a shadow,――a very impressive figure: the lengthened shadow of the old sinner’s years so soon to end in darkness absolute) =which= (full relative, in this equivalent to ‘because that’) =he is not a fearer before God.= 14 There is a vanity which │ There is an instance of is done upon the earth; that │ evanescence which occurs upon there be just _men_, unto whom │ earth, and it is this: that it happeneth according to the │ there are righteous persons to work of the wicked; again, │ whom it results as if they had there be wicked _men_, to whom │ acted like the impious; and, it happeneth according to the │ on the other hand, there are work of the righteous: I said │ impious persons to whom it may that this also _is_ vanity. │ happen as though they had acted │ like the righteous. So this, │ said I, is another instance of │ the transitory!