11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


In Context

8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

13 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:11When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:11For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.