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Ecclesiastes 8:9

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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

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Ecclesiastes 8:9 in other translations

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:9 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 8:9 in context

  1. 7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
  2. 8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
  3. 9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
  4. 10So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
  5. 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.