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Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
Common English Bible
Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
Common English Bible
7 because no one knows what will happen, and no one can say when something might happen. 8 No one has control over the life-breath,[a] to retain it, and there’s no control over the day of death. There’s no release from war, and wickedness won’t deliver those who practice it.
9 I observed all of this as I paid attention to all that happens under the sun. Sometimes people exercise power over each other to their detriment.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or wind
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