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And there is a right time and a right way for everything.
    Yet people often have many troubles.
They do not know what the future holds.
    No one can tell them what will happen.
No one has the power to keep the wind from blowing.
    No one has the power to stop his own death.
During war a soldier cannot go home.
    So also, the person who does evil will not get away free.

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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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Footnotes

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