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No one has power over the wind[a] to restrain the wind,[b] or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it. All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.

God’s Ways Are Inscrutable

10 Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things.[c] This also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or breath
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or breath
  3. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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