Ecclesiastes 8:9

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What does Ecclesiastes 8:9 mean?

Ecclesiastes 8:9 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 8:9

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

• Ecclesiastes 4:7-8

  Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

• Ecclesiastes 5:13

  There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

• Ecclesiastes 3:10

  I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

• 2 Kings 14:10-12

  Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth–shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

• Exodus 14:5-9

  And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. …

• Deuteronomy 2:30

  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

• Exodus 14:28

  And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

• Ecclesiastes 1:14

  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

• 2 Kings 25:7

  And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 8:8

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 8:9

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 8:10

  And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

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