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Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 · World English Bible
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Ecclesiastes 8:6 in other translations
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
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In context
3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
4 for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
7 For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
9 All this I have seen, and applied 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 hurt.
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