For all his days are sorrows, and his task grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This also is vanity.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?

All his days he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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

Surely every man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are stirred up in vain. He heaps up the produce, and does not know who shall gather it.

Moreover I saw under the sun in the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For all this I took to heart, in order to explain it: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows, whether by love or hatred, all that is before them.

All happens alike to everyone; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him who sacrifices, and to him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner. He who swears is as he who fears an oath.

And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall upon the priests! And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five men bearing a linen ephod.

Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep; with the edge of the sword.

And two men, sons of worthlessness, came in and sat before him; and the men of worthlessness testified against him, against Naboth, before the people, saying, Naboth has blasphemed God and the king! Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.

So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of Jehovah.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son; and as he died, he said, May Jehovah take notice, and require it!

It is all one; therefore I have said, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

If the scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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

in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon 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 put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he prolong his days, which are like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

Why do the wicked live and become old, yea, and become mighty in power?

Their houses are at peace, without dread; neither is the rod of God upon them.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we entreat Him?

For I was jealous of the boastful, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

They are not in trouble like other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongues walk through the earth.

And they say, How does the Mighty God know? and, Is there knowledge in the Most High?

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

There shall not be an infant of only a few days, nor an old man that has not fulfilled his days. For the child shall die at a hundred years old; but the sinner who is a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Righteous are You, O Jehovah, when I complain to You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those who deceive with treachery at ease?

You have planted them; yea, they take root. They grow, yea, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their heart.