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Ecclesiastes 8

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.

8:2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: 
stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: 
and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 

8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: 
and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 

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.

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.

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.

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:) 

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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