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because for each situation there is a right time and a right way to act, although evil may weigh a man down. But no one knows what will be. Indeed, who can tell him what will be?[a] As no one has power to restrain the wind, there is no power over the day of death. No discharge is granted during war, and wickedness will not deliver those who practice it.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:7 Or who can tell him when it will happen

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,(A)
    though a person may be weighed down by misery.

Since no one knows the future,
    who can tell someone else what is to come?
As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
    so[a] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
    so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so