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Because
the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Though a sinner does evil one hundred times and his
judgment is prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those that fear God, who fear before his presence;
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but it shall never be well with the wicked, neither shall his days be prolonged,
which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before the presence of God.
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There is
another vanity which is done upon the earth: that there are just
men, who are recompensed as if
they had done according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked
men, who are recompensed as if
they had done according to the work of the righteous; I say that this also
is vanity.
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Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
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Therefore I applied mine heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also
there is he that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes).
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And I have seen regarding all the works of God that man cannot attain
to understand the work that is being done under the sun, because though a man labours to seek
it out, yet he shall not find it; even though the wise
man says that he knows
it, yet he shall not be able to attain it.