World English Bible
"Because 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."
— Ecclesiastes 8:11, World English Bible
“Because 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.”
“Because 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. ”
“When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.”
“For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.”
“Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.”
“Because 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.”
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
Because 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.
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.