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Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
Contemporary English Version
Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
Contemporary English Version
9 I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?
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.
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- 8.10 but … forgotten: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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