Ecclesiastes 8:11
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.In other versions
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.
ASV
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
BBE
Because 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.
DBY
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.
WEB
Because 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.
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
BSB
In context
9All 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.
10And 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.
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.
12Though 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:
13But 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.