Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ I understood all these things. I used my mind to study everything that’s done on earth. A man sometimes makes life hard for others. But he ends up hurting himself. ¹⁰ I also saw sinful people being buried. They used to come and go from the place of worship. And others praised them in the city where they worshiped. That doesn’t have any meaning either.

¹¹ Sometimes the sentence for a crime isn’t carried out quickly. So people make plans to commit even more crimes.