Ecclesiastes 8:9

The World Marred By Oppression And Injustice

⁸ Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall. ⁹ All these things have I considered, and applied my mind unto every work that is under the Sun: how one man hath lordship upon another to his own harm. ¹⁰ For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

As One Man

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Exodus 14:5-9

And when it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled, then Pharaoh's heart and all his servants turned unto the people and said, "Why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our service?"

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

Exodus 14:28

and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remained not one.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God had hardened his spirit and made his heart tough because he would deliver him into thy hands as it is come to pass this day.

2 Kings 14:10-12

Because thou hast beaten the Edomites, therefore thine heart riseth. Be glorious: but tarry at home. For what needest thou to provoke to mischief - that thou shouldest be overthrown and Judah with thee?"

2 Kings 25:7

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and fettered him, and carried him to Babylon.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it.

Ecclesiastes 4:7-8

Moreover, I turned me, and behold yet another vanity under the Sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.