Ecclesiastes 8:6-8

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁶ There is a right time and a right way ⌞to act⌟ in every situation. Yet, a terrible human tragedy hangs over people.

⁷ They don’t know what the future will bring. So who can tell them how things will turn out? ⁸ No one has the power to prevent the spirit ^[a] of life from leaving. No one has control over the day of his own death. There is no way to avoid the war ⌞against death⌟. Wickedness will not save wicked people ⌞from dying⌟.