Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

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those who say,
    “By our tongues we will prevail;(A)
    our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

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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

11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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11 They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
“Peace, peace,” they say,
    when there is no peace.(A)

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