EC-8:1  Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the

interpretation of a

thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness

of his face

shall be changed.

EC-8:2  I [counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, and

[that] in regard

of the oath of God.

EC-8:3  Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an

evil thing; for

he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

EC-8:4  Where the word of a king [is, there is] power: and who

may say unto

him, What doest thou?

EC-8:5  Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing:

and a wise

man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

EC-8:6  Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,

therefore the

misery of man [is] great upon him.

EC-8:7  For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell

him when it

shall be?

EC-8:8  [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.

EC-8:9  All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every

work that is

done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth

over another to

his own hurt.

EC-8:10  And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone

from the place

of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had

so done: this

[is] also vanity.

EC-8:11  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed

speedily,

therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to

do evil.

EC-8:12  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his

[days] be

prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them

that fear God,

which fear before him:

EC-8:13  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall

he prolong

[his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not

before God.

EC-8:14  There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that

there be just

[men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the

wicked; again,

there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the

work of the

righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

EC-8:15  Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better

thing under the

sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall

abide with him

of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under

the sun.

EC-8:16  When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see

the business

that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither

day nor night

seeth sleep with his eyes:)

EC-8:17  Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot

find out the

work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to

seek [it] out,

yet he shall not find [it]; yea farther; though a wise [man]

think to know

[it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

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