OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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9

All this I have 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.

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Verse 9. Hurt. Those who are despised in elevated situations, might have been happy in obscurity.

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