Ecclesiastes:8

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* Who is as the wise man ? And who knows the interpretation of a thing ? The wisdom of man makes his face to shine , and the hardness of his face is changed . * I [counsel you ], Keep the king 's command , and that in regard of the oath of God . * Don 't be in a hurry to go out of his presence ; don 't persist in an evil thing : for he does whatever pleases him . * For the king 's word [has ] power ; and who may say to him , What are you doing ? * Whoever keeps the commandment will know no evil thing ; and a wise man 's heart discerns time and judgment : * for to every purpose there is a time and judgment ; because the misery of man is great on him : * for he doesn 't know that which will be ; for who can tell him how it will be ? * Man does not have power over the spirit to retain the spirit ; neither does he have power over the day of death ; and there is no discharge in war : neither will wickedness deliver him who is given to it . * All this I have seen , and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun : [there is ] a time in which man has power over man to his hurt . * So I saw the wicked buried , and they came [to the grave ]; and those who had done right went away from the holy place , and were forgotten in the city : this also is vanity . * Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily , therefore the heart of the sons of man is fully set in them to do evil . * Though a sinner does evil a hundred times , and prolong his [days ], yet surely I know that it will be well with those who fear God , that fear before him : * but it will not be well with the wicked , neither will he prolong [his ] days , [which are ] as a shadow ; because he does not fear before God . * There is a vanity which is done on the earth , that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked ; again , there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous : I said that this also is vanity . * Then I commended mirth , because man has no better thing under the sun , than to eat , and to drink , and to be joyful : for that will go with him in his labor [all ] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun . * When I applied my heart to know wisdom , and to see the business that is done on the earth (for there is also one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes ), * then I saw all the work of God , that man can 't find out the work that is done under the sun : because however much man labors to seek it out , yet he will not find it ; yes moreover , though a wise man thinks to know it , yet he will not be able to find it .

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