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Ecclesiastes 8:4-9 New Living Translation (NLT)

4. His command is backed by great power. No one can resist or question it.

5. Those who obey him will not be punished. Those who are wise will find a time and a way to do what is right,

6. for there is a time and a way for everything, even when a person is in trouble.

7. Indeed, how can people avoid what they don’t know is going to happen?

8. None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue the wicked.

9. I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other.

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