Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.
They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.
He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
In his days shall the righteous flourish, And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him; All nations shall serve him.
For he will deliver the needy when he crieth, And the poor, that hath no helper.
He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he will save.
For who knoweth what is good for man in (his) life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his (days), yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong (his) days, (which are) as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.