Ecclesiastes 8:8-10
1599 Geneva Bible
8 Man is not Lord [a]over the spirit to retain the spirit: neither hath he power in the day of death, nor deliverance in the battle, neither shall wickedness deliver the possessors thereof.
9 All this have I seen, and have given mine heart to every work which is wrought under the sun, and I saw a time that man ruleth over man to his own [b]hurt.
10 And likewise I saw the wicked buried, and [c]they returned, and they that came from the holy [d]place, were yet forgotten in the city, where they had done right: this also is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:8 Man hath no power to save his own life, and therefore must not rashly cast himself into danger.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9 As cometh ofttimes to tyrants and wicked rulers.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 That is, others as wicked as they.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 They that feared God and worshipped him according as he had appointed.
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