OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Ecclesiastes 8:7

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For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

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Ecclesiastes 8:4–10

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for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

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Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

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For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

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For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

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There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

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All this I have seen, and applied 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 hurt.

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So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

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