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Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
Good News Translation
Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
Good News Translation
8 No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.
The Wicked and the Righteous
9 I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them. 10 Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil.[a] It is useless.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Verse 10 in Hebrew is unclear.
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