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.


In Context

6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man's misery weighs heavily upon him.

7 Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?

8 No man has power over the wind to contain it ; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

9 All 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.

10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried- those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

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 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 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.