Ecclesiastes:8:2-17

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* I , Keep the king ’s command , and that which regardeth the oath by God . * Be not hasty to go out of his presence ; engage not in an evil thing ; for whatsoever pleaseth him , can he do ; * Because the word of a king is powerful ; and who may say unto him , What doest thou ?–– * Whoso keepeth the commandment will experience no evil thing : and a wise man ’s heart knoweth both time and the just consequence . * Because for every pursuit there is a time and a just consequence ; for the evil of man heavily upon him . * For he knoweth not that which will be ; for who can tell him how it will be ? * No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit ; and there is no control over the day of death ; and there is no representation in that war ; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise it . * All this have I seen , and directed my heart unto every work that is done under the sun : there is a time when one man ruleth over another to his own injury . * Then also did I see the wicked buried , who had gone to their rest ; but those who had acted correctly had to go away from the holy place , and were forgotten in the city . Also this is vanity . * Because the punishment against evil deeds is not executed speedily , therefore is the heart of the sons of men filled up in them to do evil . * But let a sinner do evil a hundred times , and withhold long his punishment from him ; still do I truly know for certain that it will be well with those that fear God , because they are afraid of him ; * And that it will not be well with the wicked , and that he will not endure many days , like the shadow ; because he is not afraid of God . * There is a vanity which is done upon the earth , that there are righteous men , unto whom it happeneth in accordance with the deeds of the wicked ; again , there are wicked men , to whom it happeneth in accordance with the deeds of the righteous . I said that this also is vanity . * Therefore do I praise joyfulness , that there is nothing better for man under the sun , than to eat , and to drink , and to be joyful ; for this will adhere to him in his toil , during the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun .–– * When I applied my heart to know wisdom , and to see the employment that is done upon the earth , how even neither by day nor by night sleep is seen in the eyes of some men : * Then did I see the whole work of God , that a man is not able to find out the work that is done under the sun ; inasmuch as though a man were to toil to seek for it , he would yet not find it ; and even if the wise were to think to know it , he would yet not be able to find it .

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