Ecclesiastes:8

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* Who [is ] as the wise ? And who knows the meaning of a thing ? A man 's wisdom makes his face to shine , and the boldness of his face shall be changed . * I [say ], keep the king 's word , and [that ] because of the oath of God . * Do not be hasty to leave his presence . Do not take a stand in an evil thing , for he does whatever pleases him . * Because the word of a king [is ] that which has power ; and who may say to him , What are you doing ? * Whoever keeps the command shall feel no evil thing ; and a wise man 's heart knows both time and judgment . * Because to every purpose there is time and judgment , therefore the misery of man [is ] great on him . * For he does not know what shall be ; for who can tell him when it shall be ? * [There is ] no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit ; nor power in the day of death ; and [there is ] no discharge in [that ] war ; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners . * All this I have seen , and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun . There is ] a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt . * And so I saw the wicked buried , and they came and went from the holy place . And they were forgotten in the city , [these ] things that they had done . This [is ] also vanity . * 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 . * Though a sinner does evil a hundred [times ], and his [days ] be made longer , yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God , who fear before Him . * But it shall not be well with the wicked , nor shall he make [his ] days longer like a shadow ; because he does not fear before God . * There is a vanity which is done on the earth : There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked ; again , there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous . I said that this also [is vanity . * Then I praised gladness , because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad ; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun . * When I gave my heart to know wisdom , and to see the business that is done on the earth ; for neither day nor night do men see sleep with their eyes . * Then I looked at all the work of God , that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun ; because though a man labors to seek [it ] out , yet he shall not find it . Yea , further , though a wise one speaks of knowing , yet he shall not be able to find [it ].

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