a vanity

Ecclesiastes 4:4, 8
I saw that all labor and success spring from a man's envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil I have seen under the sun--an error that proceeds from the ruler:

there shall be just

Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

Ecclesiastes 7:15
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God's hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate. . . .

Job 9:22-24
It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.' . . .

Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Job 24:21-25
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow. . . .

Psalm 73:13, 14
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands. . . .

Malachi 3:15
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.'"