12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and God prolongeth his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear the Lord, and do reverence before him.

13 But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days: he shall be like a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

14 There is a vanity, which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it cometh according to the [a]work of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it cometh according to the work of the just: I thought also that this is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:14 Which are punished as though they were wicked, as Eccl. 7:17.

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