World Messianic Bible British Edition

Ecclesiastes 8:13-16 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

13. But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.

14. There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is 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 joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

16. When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),