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Ecclesiastes 8:10-12
Contemporary English Version
Ecclesiastes 8:10-12
Contemporary English Version
Who Can Understand the Ways of God?
10 I saw the wicked buried with honor, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten.[a] None of this makes sense. 11 When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime. 12 They commit hundreds of crimes and live a long time, in spite of the saying:
Everyone who lives right
and respects God
will prosper,
Footnotes
- 8.10 but … forgotten: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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