Ecclesiastes 8:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ Just as no human being has control over the wind^[a] to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice^[b] it.

⁹ I observed all this, and carefully considered everything that is undertaken on earth, especially the time when someone dominates another to his detriment. ¹⁰ So I watched the wicked being entombed. They used to come in and out of the Holy Place,^[c] but now they are forgotten in the city, where they used to work. This, too, is pointless.