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Life Is Not Fair

All this I saw while I was applying my heart to every work done under the sun, during this time when one man has power over another to harm him.[a] 10 While doing this, I have seen wicked people buried. They had come and gone from the holy place, and they were praised[b] in the city where they had done so! This too is vapor.

11 When the sentence for a crime is not carried out quickly, people’s hearts are emboldened to do evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:9 Or one man has power over another to his own detriment
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:10 The translation follows the Greek and some Hebrew manuscripts. Most Hebrew manuscripts read but they were forgotten.