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Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 No one has power over the wind[a] to restrain the wind[b] or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.(A) 9 All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.(B)
God’s Ways Are Inscrutable
10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[c] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[d] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.
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