Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong days, as a shadow; because he feareth not before Elohim.
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11 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.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear Elohim, which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong days, as a shadow; because he feareth not before Elohim.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just , unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked , to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, 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 Elohim giveth him under the sun.