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Chapter 8
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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. |
2
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I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and
that in regard of the oath of God. |
3
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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an
evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. |
4
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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who
may say unto him, What doest thou? |
5
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing:
and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. |
6
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,
therefore the misery of man is great upon him. |
7
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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can
tell him when it shall be? |
8
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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. |
9
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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. |
10
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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. |
11
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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. |
12
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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: |
13
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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. |
14
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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. |
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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. |
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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:) |
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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. |
