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chapter 8
1
The
wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his
face.
2 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments
of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not
continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:
4 And his word is full of power: neither can any man
say to him: Why dost thou so?
5 He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil.
The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.
6 There is a time and opportunity for every business,
and great affliction for man:
7 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to
come he cannot know by any messenger.
8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither
hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is
at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
9 All these things I have considered, and applied my
heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth
over another to his own hurt.
10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet
living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just
works: but this also is vanity.
11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced
against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
12 But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by
patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them
that fear God, who dread his face.
13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let
his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the
face of the Lord.
14 There is also another vanity, which is done upon the
earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the
works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though
they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
15 Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no
good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he
should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which
God hath given him under the sun.
16 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to
understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and
night take no sleep with their eyes.
17 And I understood that man can find no reason of all
those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to
seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that
he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.
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