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Ecclesiastes 8:7

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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:5

    Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

  2. Ecclesiastes 8:6

    Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

  3. 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.

  4. Ecclesiastes 8:9

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.