| Eccl. 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 |
I [say,] Keep the commandment of the king, and [that,] because of the oath before God. |
| Eccl. 8:3 |
Do not hurry to leave him; do not join in an evil matter, for he will do whatever he pleases. |
| Eccl. 8:4 |
For the king's word is powerful, and who will say to him, What are you doing? |
| Eccl. 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 |
For there is a proper time and manner for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy upon him; |
| Eccl. 8:7 |
For he does not know what will be, for who can tell him how it will be? |
| Eccl. 8:8 |
There is no man who has power over his breath 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 |
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 |
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 |
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set within them to do evil. |
| Eccl. 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 |
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 |
There is a vanity that is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom [things] happen 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 |
So I praised pleasure, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat 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 |
When I set my heart to know wisdom and to see the travail that is done on the earth (even though man's eyes do not see sleep day or night), |
| Eccl. 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. |