There [is] a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also [is] vanity!"

So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.

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Summary

Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Ye yourselves

Job 21:28

Ecclesiastes 8:14

Ecclesiastes 9:1

Altogether

Job 26:2

Bible References

Ye yourselves

For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where [are] {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'

There [is] a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also [is] vanity!"

Altogether

How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?

"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.

[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?

{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!