Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.