Ecclesiastes 8:10 meaning and explanation

Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 8:10, Berean Standard Bible

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The Teacher, reflecting on what he has observed under the sun, describes a funeral that troubled him. Wicked people who had regularly entered the holy place, the temple courts where worshipers came and went, were buried with honor, and in the very city where they had done their evil they were praised.

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