Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
(Ecclesiastes 8:11)Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
(Ecclesiastes 8:12)But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
(Ecclesiastes 8:13)There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
(Ecclesiastes 8:15)When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
(Ecclesiastes 8:16)Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Ecclesiastes 8:14 - Cross Reference
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
(Job 9:22)The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
(Ecclesiastes 2:14)There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
(Ecclesiastes 4:8)He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
(Job 24:21)There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
(Ecclesiastes 10:5)Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
(Job 21:7)All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
(Ecclesiastes 7:15)For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
(Ecclesiastes 9:1)And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
(Malachi 3:15)Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
(Jeremiah 12:1)Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
(Ecclesiastes 4:4)For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
(Psalm 73:3)Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
(Psalm 73:12)How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
(Job 21:17)