¹³ However, it will not go well with the wicked,^(A) and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow,^(B) for they are not reverent before God.

¹⁷ I observed all the work of God and concluded that man is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors hard to explore it, he cannot find it;^(A) even if the wise man claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.