A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 8:6
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 8:4
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
- Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.