New Revised Standard Version
Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Contemporary English Version
I saw the wicked buried with honor, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten. None of this makes sense.

New American Bible
Meanwhile I saw the wicked buried. They would come and go from the holy place. But those were forgotten in the city who had acted justly. This also is vanity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

so

2 Kings 9:34,35 And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's daughter. . . .

Job 21:18,32,33 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth. . . .

Luke 16:22 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.

the place

Psalm 122:1-5 A gradual canticle. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord. . . .

Acts 6:13 And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

they were

Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.