"Because the 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." (Eccl. 8:11)

"Every 22 seconds someone in the USA is beaten, stabbed, shot, robbed, raped or killed. Nearly 2 million a year become violent-crime victims. But after doctors patch the wounded or give up on the dead, after the police file their reports, after the media and public tire of yet another tragic story, survivors and their families and friends find their lives ravaged by pain and fear. "You go crazy," says Genelle Reilley, 55, a Laguna Beach, Calif., homemaker whose 23-year-old daughter was stabbed to death in 1986. "We will never be really happy again." (From Robert Davis, USA TODAY, 11-26-93, p. 8A)

In this cruel, evil world of our's, let us wholly trust in our God. He has the answer for every problem from the cradle to the grave. The next verses which follow Eccl. 8:11 say, "Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God." (Eccl. 8:12-13)