11. Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—
12. because the sinner does evil a hundred times and survives. Though indeed I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, for their reverence toward him;
13. and that it shall not be well with the wicked, who shall not prolong their shadowy days, for their lack of reverence toward God.
14. This is a vanity that occurs on earth: There are those who are just but are treated as though they had done evil, and those who are wicked but are treated as though they had done justly. This, too, I say is vanity.