Ecclesiastes 8:9

7 ^aFor he does not know what will happen;
So who can tell him when it will occur?

8 ^aNo one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
And no one has power in the day of death.
There is ^bno release from that war,
And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.

9 All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

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10 Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were ^aforgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

11 ^aBecause the 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.

12 ^aThough a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that ^bit will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

14 There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just men to whom it ^ahappens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the ^brighteous. I said that this also is vanity.

15 ^aSo I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Verse Comparison: Ecclesiastes 8:9

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American Standard Version
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: `there is' a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

Amplified® Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?

Darby English Version
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.

Good News Bible
I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them.

King James Version
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

New American Standard Bible
All this I have seen and applied my mind to every deed that has been done under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over {another} man to his hurt.

New International Version
All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.

New King James Version
All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
All this I have seen and applied my mind to every deed that has taken place under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over another man to his hurt.

Revised Standard Version
All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

Young's Literal Translation
All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

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