7 None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us.
8 No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.
9 I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them.
10 Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless.
11 Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough.
12 A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: “If you obey God, everything will be all right,
13 but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God.”