For to every purpose there is a time and judgment, because the [a]misery of man is great upon him.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Man is not Lord [b]over the spirit to retain the spirit: neither hath he power in the day of death, nor deliverance in the battle, neither shall wickedness deliver the possessors thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:6 Man of himself is miserable, and therefore ought to do nothing to increase the same, but to work all things by wisdom and counsel.
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Man hath no power to save his own life, and therefore must not rashly cast himself into danger.

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