Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

Amplified Bible

⁹ All this I have seen while applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has exercised power over others to their detriment.

¹⁰ So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness). ¹¹ Because the sentence against an evil act is not executed quickly, the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil.