Ecclesiastes 8:9

So I saw all this, 1 And I applied my heart to every work 1 That has been done under the sun; 1 All the things wherein man has power 1 Over man to afflict him. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The 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.

In Context

8There is no man that has power over the spirit 1 To retain the spirit; 1 And there is no power in the day of death: 1 And there is no discharge in the day of battle; 1 Neither shall ungodliness save her votary. 1

10And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, 1 And that out of the holy place: 1 And they departed, and were praised in the city, 1 Because they had done thus: 1 This also is vanity. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 14:28And the water returned and covered the chariots and the riders, and all the forces of Pharaoh, who entered after them into the sea: and there was not left of them even one.

2 Kings 14:10Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Judah with thee.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I beheld all the works 1 That were wrought under the sun; 1 And, behold, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit. 1

Ecclesiastes 4:7So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun. 1

Ecclesiastes 5:8Also the abundance of the earth is for everyone: 1 The king is dependent on the tilled field. 1

Ecclesiastes 7:25I and my heart went round about to know, 1 And to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, 1 And to know the folly and trouble 1 And madness of the ungodly man. 1

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:7-9

The Certainty of Death. 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 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. Solomon had said ( v. 5 ) that a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man's… Read the whole commentary →

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