Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

Contemporary English Version

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?

Who Can Understand the Ways of God?

¹⁰ I saw the wicked buried with honor, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten.^[a] 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.