Ecclesiastes 8:9
World English Bible (WEB)
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.
In context
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.
10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:9 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
- ASV American Standard 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 hath power over another to his hurt.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.
- DBY Darby Translation
- All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.
- WBS Webster Bible
- All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.