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JPS TaNaKH 1917 - Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes 8

Ecclesiastes 8:6-12

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6For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him.
7For he knoweth not that which shall be; for even when it cometh to pass, who shall declare it unto him?
8There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
9All this have I seen, even applied my heart thereto, whatever the work that is done under the sun; what time one man had power over another to his hurt.
10And so I saw the wicked buried, and they entered into their rest; but they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city; this also is vanity.
11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;
12because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;

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