Ecclesiastes 8:10–17

Death Comes to All

¹⁰Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were ^jforgotten ⁴in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. ^11kBecause the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ^12lThough a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that ^mit will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. ¹³But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

¹⁴There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just men to whom it ⁿhappens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the ^orighteous. I said that this also is vanity.

^15pSo I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

¹⁶When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night, ¹⁷then I saw all the work of God, that ^qa man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.