7 though no one can tell the future.
8 We cannot control the wind or determine the day of our death. There is no escape in time of war, and no one can hide behind evil.
9 I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?
10 I saw the wicked buried with honour, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten. None of this makes sense.
11 When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.
12 They commit hundreds of crimes and live to a ripe old age, in spite of the saying:Everyone who lives rightand respects Godwill prosper,
13 but no one who sinsand rejects Godwill prosper or live very long.