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Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
English Standard Version Anglicised
Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
English Standard Version Anglicised
7 For he (A)does not know what is to be, for (B)who can tell him how it will be? 8 No man has power to (C)retain the spirit, (D)or power over the day of death. There is no (E)discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. 9 (F)All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.
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Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
New International Version
7 Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
8 As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
so[a] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[b] hurt.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so
- Ecclesiastes 8:9 Or to their
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