Eccl. 8
:1
8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the sternness of his face is changed.
Eccl. 8
:2
8:2
I say, Keep the commandment of the king, and
that, because of the oath before God.
Eccl. 8
:3
8:3
Do not hurry to leave him; do not
1join in an evil matter, for he will do whatever he pleases.
Eccl. 8
:4
8:4
For the king’s word is powerful, and who will say to him, What are you doing?
Eccl. 8
:5
8:5
He who keeps the commandment will know nothing evil, and a wise man’s heart will know the proper time and manner.
Eccl. 8
:6
8:6
For there is a proper
atime and manner for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy upon him;
Eccl. 8
:7
8:7
aFor he does not know what will be, for who can tell him how it will be?
Eccl. 8
:8
8:8
There is no man who has power over his
1breath to retain his breath, and no one has power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the battle, nor will wickedness deliver its own master.
Eccl. 8
:9
8:9
All this I have seen, and I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun when a man overpowers
another man to his hurt.
Eccl. 8
:10
8:10
And then I saw the wicked buried, who
before had gone in and come forth from the holy place and were forgotten in the city where they had thus acted. This also is vanity.
Eccl. 8
:11
8:11
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not
aexecuted speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set within them to do evil.
Eccl. 8
:12
8:12
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his
life, yet I also know that it will be well with the God-fearing who are in fear before Him;
Eccl. 8
:13
8:13
But it will not be well with the wicked man, nor will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he is not in fear before God.
Eccl. 8
:14
8:14
There is a vanity that is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom
things ahappen according to the deeds of the wicked and there are wicked men to whom
things happen according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this also is vanity.
Eccl. 8
:15
8:15
So I praised pleasure, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to
1aeat and to drink and to rejoice; for that will stay with him in his labor during the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Eccl. 8
:16
8:16
When I set my heart to know wisdom and to see the travail that is done on the earth (even though
1man’s eyes do not see sleep day or night),
Eccl. 8
:17
8:17
Then I saw every work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun, because however man labors to seek
it out, he will not find
it out; and even if the wise man says that he will come to know
it, he is not able to find
it out.
