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Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
Lexham English Bible
Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
Lexham English Bible
No One Knows the Future
7 Surely no one knows what will be,
so who can tell anyone what will happen?
8 Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind,
so also no one can control the day of his death.
Just as no one is discharged in time of war,
so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.
The World Marred by Oppression and Injustice
9 I saw all this as I applied my heart to all the deeds done under the sun: sometimes those in authority harm others.[a]
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- Ecclesiastes 8:9 Literally “sometimes one man domineers another man to his harm”
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