9All 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.


In Context

6 For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;

7 for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

8 There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

9 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.

10 And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9All 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9All this have I 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9All 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.