Ecc 8:8As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so[fn] no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Ecc 8:10Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[fn] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
Ecc 8:12Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Ecc 8:14There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
Ecc 8:15So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
Ecc 8:17then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
