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Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 All this have I seen while applying my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his own hurt or to the other man’s.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried—those who had come and gone out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised and] forgotten in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility)!
11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil.
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