And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
The place of judgment ... wickedness was there. Here a difficulty is suggested. If God foreorders the succession of events, why are the wicked allowed to deal unrighteously in the place where injustice ought least of all to be?-namely, "the place of judgment;" where judges give sentence as representatives of God (2 Chronicles 19:6-7; Deuteronomy 11:17; Psalms 94:20; Psalms 125:3).