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Ecclesiastes 8:9

World English Bible

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.

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Ecclesiastes 8:9 in other translations

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:9 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 8:9 in context

  1. 7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
  2. 8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
  3. 9All 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.
  4. 10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. 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.