Ecclesiastes 8:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸ We cannot control the wind^[a] or determine the day of our death. There is no escape in time of war, and no one can hide behind evil. ⁹ I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?

Who Can Understand the Ways of God?

¹⁰ I saw the wicked buried with honor, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten.^[b] None of this makes sense.