8. No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
9. I have seen all this while applying my mind to everything done under the sun: sometimes one person dominates another person to his own harm.
10. Then I saw the wicked buried—they used to come and go from the holy place, but will soon be forgotten in the very city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
11. When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.