Ecclesiastes 8:7-13
Modern English Version
7 For he does not know what will happen;
for who can declare to him what will occur?
8 There is not a man with mastery over the wind to restrain it,
nor with power over the day of death.
And no one can discharge a battle,
nor can wickedness rescue the one possessing it.
9 All this I saw while applying my heart to every work that is done under the sun, when one man rules over another to the other’s hurt.
God’s Unknowable Ways
10 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised[a] in the city where they did works. This is also vanity.
11 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed swiftly, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil. 12 Since one who sins may do evil a hundred times and extend his life, I also have experienced that it will be good for those who fear God when they have reverence before Him. 13 But it will not be well for the wicked, and he will not prolong his days, like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Or the Heb. forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 8:7-13
New King James Version
7 (A)For he does not know what will happen;
So who can tell him when it will occur?
8 (B)No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
And no one has power in the day of death.
There is (C)no release from that war,
And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
9 All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.
Death Comes to All
10 Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were (D)forgotten[a] in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. 11 (E)Because the 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. 12 (F)Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that (G)it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. 13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Heb. mss., LXX, Vg. praised
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