Ecclesiastes 8:6-14
English Standard Version
Chapter 8
6For there is a time and a way for everything, although man 's trouble lies heavy on him. 7For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be? 8No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. 9All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.
10Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.
11Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
12Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
13But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
