¹² Even though the sinner does wrong a hundred times and continues to live, I am confident that things will go well for those who fear God because of their fear of him. ¹³ However, things will not go well with the wicked, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

¹⁴ What Constitutes Happiness.^[a] Another vanity that takes place on earth is that sometimes righteous people are treated as though they had acted in an evil way, and wicked people are treated as though they had lived righteous lives. This too, I say, is vanity.