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Ecclesiastes 8:7-8
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Ecclesiastes 8:7-8
Living Bible
6-7 Yes, there is a time and a way for everything, though man’s trouble lies heavy upon him; for how can he avoid what he doesn’t know is going to happen?
8 No one can hold back his spirit from departing; no one has the power to prevent his day of death, for there is no discharge from that obligation and that dark battle. Certainly a man’s wickedness is not going to help him then.
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Ecclesiastes 8:7-8
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 8:7-8
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.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so
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