Ecclesiastes:8:2-17
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ I [counsel thee] to keep the king's (note:)That is, that you obey the king and keep the oath that you have made for the same cause.(:note) commandment, and [that] in regard of the oath of God.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both (note:)That is, when time is to obey, and how far he should obey.(:note) time and judgment.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the (note:)Man by himself is miserable, and therefore should do nothing to increase the same, but to work all things by wisdom and counsel.(:note) misery of man [is] great upon him.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ [There is] no man that hath power (note:)Man has no power to save his own life and therefore must not rashly cast himself into danger.(:note) over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own (note:)As comes often to tyrants and wicked rulers.(:note) hurt.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and (note:)That is, others as wicked as they.(:note) gone from the They who feared God and worshipped him as he had appointed. place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil work is not (note:)Where justice is delayed, there sin reigns.(:note) executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the (note:)Who are punished as though they were wicked, as in (Ecc_7:17)(:note) work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than (note:){{See Ecc_3:22}}(:note) to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.
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