Ecclesiastes 8:9

9. Ruleth… to his… hurt But such retribution, though sometimes seen, does not always appear. Koheleth admits that in his observations he has seen men sometimes ruling others to their damage: not the damage of the ruler, but of the subject. Own is not found in the Hebrew, and its insertion breaks the sense. For this is the admission of the opposite of what has just been remarked, namely, that retribution comes to tyrants. Here is a case where it does not come.