About 1,300 years thereafter, Solomon found conditions to be so bad that he wrote: “I congratulated the dead who had already died rather than the living who were still alive.
(‏ جا ٤ :‏ ​ ٢ ،‏ ٣‏ )‏ وَإِذَا أَضَفْنَا ٠٠٠‏,٣ سَنَةٍ أُخْرَى ،‏ نَصِلُ إِلَى أَيَّامِنَا ٱلَّتِي لَا يَزَالُ ٱلشَّرُّ يَتَفَاقَمُ فِيهَا .‏