Ecclesiastes 8:10–17

¹⁰And ^rso I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from ^sthe place of the holy, and ^tthey were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

^11uBecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men ^xis fully set in them to do evil. ¹²Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and ^yhis ^zadays be prolonged, yet surely I know that ^ait shall be well ^bwith them that fear God, which fear before him: ¹³But it ^bcshall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are ^das a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

¹⁴There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, ^eunto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, ^fto whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. ¹⁵Then I commended mirth, because ^ga man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall ^habide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

¹⁶When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the ⁱbusiness that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) ¹⁷Then I beheld all the work of God, that ^ka man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, ^lyet shall he not be able to find it.