For there is a time and a way (A)for everything, although man's trouble[a] lies heavy on him. For he (B)does not know what is to be, for (C)who can tell him how it will be? No man has power to (D)retain the spirit, (E)or power over the day of death. There is no (F)discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:6 Or evil

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