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Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
GOD’S WORD Translation
Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
GOD’S WORD Translation
8 No one has the power to prevent the spirit [a] of life from leaving. No one has control over the day of his own death. There is no way to avoid the war ⌞against death⌟. Wickedness will not save wicked people ⌞from dying⌟.
Life Is Unfair
9 I have seen all of this, and I have carefully considered all that is done under the sun whenever one person has authority to hurt others. 10 Then I saw wicked people given an ⌞honorable⌟ burial. They used to go in and out of the holy place. They were praised in the city for doing such things. Even this is pointless.
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- 8:8 Or “breath.”
GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
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