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.


In Context

6 There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:

7 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

9 All 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.

10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

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 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 Darby Bible Translation 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 when man ruleth man 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.