Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

New International Version

⁹ All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own^[a] hurt. ¹⁰ Then too, I saw the wicked buried^(A)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise^[b] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

¹¹ When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.