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8
|Eclesiastés 8:8|
No man has power over the wind to contain it; [Or over his spirit to retain it] so no-one has power over the day of his death. As no-one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practise it.
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9
|Eclesiastés 8:9|
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 [Or to their] hurt.
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10
|Eclesiastés 8:10|
Then too, I saw the wicked buried — those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise [Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
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11
|Eclesiastés 8:11|
When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
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12
|Eclesiastés 8:12|
Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with Godfearing men, who are reverent before God.
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13
|Eclesiastés 8:13|
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
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14
|Eclesiastés 8:14|
There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
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15
|Eclesiastés 8:15|
So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun.
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16
|Eclesiastés 8:16|
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man’s labour on earth — his eyes not seeing sleep day or night —
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17
|Eclesiastés 8:17|
then I saw all that God has done. No-one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.
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