Coping with What One Sees in an Imperfect World

In this imperfect system, many things are seen that could be very disturbing to us. The wicked may be prospering, while righteous persons are suffering. How can we prevent such things from making us bitter?

Based on careful investigation, King Solomon provided some helpful observations. He wrote: “Because sentence against a bad work has not been executed speedily, that is why the heart of the sons of men has become fully set in them to do bad.

Eccl. 8:11-13.

As Solomon here pointed out, human justice may be lax and human courts may be painfully slow or even negligent in executing sentence against bad works. Because of not being punished for their lawlessness, the wicked think that they are getting away with something and therefore become firmly established in their bad ways.