Ecclesiastes 8:10
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Young's Literal Translation
And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also [is] vanity.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
Then too,
וּבְכֵ֡ן (ū·ḇə·ḵên)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

I saw
רָאִיתִי֩ (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the burial
קְבֻרִ֜ים (qə·ḇu·rîm)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural
Strong's 6912: To inter

of the wicked
רְשָׁעִ֨ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

who had come
וָבָ֗אוּ (wā·ḇā·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and gone
יְהַלֵּ֔כוּ (yə·hal·lê·ḵū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

from the holy
קָדוֹשׁ֙ (qā·ḏō·wōš)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6918: Sacred, God, an angel, a saint, a sanctuary

place
וּמִמְּק֤וֹם (ū·mim·mə·qō·wm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

and were praised
וְיִֽשְׁתַּכְּח֥וּ (wə·yiš·tak·kə·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

in the city
בָעִ֖יר (ḇā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

where
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

they had done
עָשׂ֑וּ (‘ā·śū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

so.
כֵּן־ (kên-)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

This
זֶ֖ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

too
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

is futile.
הָֽבֶל׃ (hā·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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