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Ecclesiastes 8:6-11 New Century Version (NCV)

6. There is a right time and a right way for everything,yet people often have many troubles.

7. They do not know what the future holds,and no one can tell them what will happen.

8. No one can control the windor stop his own death.No soldier is released in times of war,and evil does not set free those who do evil.

9. I saw all of this as I considered all that is done here on earth. Sometimes people harm those they control.

10. I saw the funerals of evil people who used to go in and out of the holy place. They were honored in the same towns where they had done evil. This is useless, too.

11. When evil people are not punished right away, it makes others want to do evil, too.

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