Ecclesiastes 8:7-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ They don’t know what the future will bring. So who can tell them how things will turn out? ⁸ No one has the power to prevent the spirit ^[a] of life from leaving. No one has control over the day of his own death. There is no way to avoid the war ⌞against death⌟. Wickedness will not save wicked people ⌞from dying⌟.

Life Is Unfair

⁹ I have seen all of this, and I have carefully considered all that is done under the sun whenever one person has authority to hurt others.