Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ecclesiastes 8

2 songs meet this passage

“Life's just not fair”
Street Lights · Kanye West
resonates with Ecclesiastes 8:14
The Preacher names the same ache: the world's unfairness observed honestly without pretending it away.
Saturn · SZA
resonates with Ecclesiastes 8:14
Qoheleth names the same injustice: the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer, a confusion the song voices almost verbatim.

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