Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

The Message

⁹ All this I observed as I tried my best to understand all that’s going on in this world. As long as men and women have the power to hurt each other, this is the way it is.

One Fate for Everybody

¹⁰ One time I saw wicked men given a solemn burial in holy ground. When the people returned to the city, they delivered flowery eulogies—and in the very place where wicked acts were done by those very men! More smoke. Indeed.

¹¹ Because the sentence against evil deeds is so long in coming, people in general think they can get by with murder.