⁸ No one has authority over the wind^[a] to restrain it,^(A) and there is no authority over the day of death;^(B) there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape. ⁹ All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.

¹⁰ In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place,^(C) and they were praised^[b] in the city where they did so. This too is futile.