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Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 8:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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.(A)
God’s Ways Are Inscrutable
10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity. 11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.
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