Ecclesiastes 8:11

¹¹Etenim, quia non profertur cito sententia contra opera mala, ideo cor filiorum hominum repletur, ut perpetrent mala.c

Ecclesiastes 8 wrestles with the tension between wisdom and power, particularly when the wise find themselves under the authority of foolish or unjust rulers. The Teacher observes that human authority often operates unpredictably, and that the righteous do not always receive just