For all his days [are] sorrowful, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.

And this is also an evil infirmity; for as he came, so also shall he return. And what is his gain, for which he labors in vain?

Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.

For who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

And moreover I saw under the sun: [In] the place of judgment, wickedness [was] there; and in the place of righteousness, there was godliness.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just. I said, This is also vanity.

[I saw] that the righteous, the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. Yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, [though] all are before their face.

Vanity is in all. There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

And the king said to Doeg, Turn, and fall upon the priests: and Doeg the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod.

And he struck Nob, the city of the priest, with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and ox, and also sheep.

And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, You have 6blasphemed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.

And they conspired against him, and stoned him by command of King Joash in the court of the Lord's house.

So Joash remembered not the kindness which his father Jehoiada had exercised towards him, but killed his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon [it], and judge.

Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and from long beforehand. Nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before Him.

But it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, [which are but] a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.

Why do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

Their houses are prosperous, and safe from fear, neither is the rod of the Lord upon them.

And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;

And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

They are not in the troubles of [other] men; and they shall not be scourged with [other] men.

Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness; they have fulfilled their intention.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

Neither shall there be there anymore a [child that dies] untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time; for the youth shall be a hundred years [old], and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed;

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of the ungodly prospers? [And] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; You are near to their mouth, but far from their mind.