Ecclesiastes 8:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 6 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ All 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ All this have I seen while applying 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 own hurt or to the other man's.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ All 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ I observed all of this as I paid attention to all that happens under the sun. Sometimes people exercise power over each other to their detriment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ I have considered all these things, and I have applied my heart to all the works which are being done under the sun. Sometimes one man rules over another to his own harm.

Ecclesiastes 8:9 Cross References

2 Kings 25:7

2 But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

Exodus 14:28

1 And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

7 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

0 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,

Ecclesiastes 5:7

4 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

5 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

Ecclesiastes 7:7

4 In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

Deuteronomy 2:30

5 Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took: