noyes Ecclesiastes:8:2-17 SEEK
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I counsel thee to keep the king
s commandment ,
and that on account of the oath of God .
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Be not in haste to depart from his presence ;
persist not in an evil thing ;
for whatever pleaseth him ,
that he doeth .
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For the word of the king is powerful ;
and who can say to him , "
What doest thou ?"
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He that keepeth the commandment shall experience no evil ;
and the heart of the wise man hath regard to time and judgment .
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For to every thing there is a time and judgment .
For the misery of man is great upon him .
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For no one knoweth what shall be ;
for who can tell him how it shall be ?
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No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit ,
and no man hath power over the day of death ;
and there is no discharge in that war ;
and wickedness shall not deliver those that are guilty of it .
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All this have I seen ,
and I have given heed to all things that are done under the sun .
There is a time when man ruleth over man to his hurt .
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And so I saw the wicked buried ,
while the righteous came and went from the holy place ,
and were forgotten in the city .
This also is vanity .
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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily ,
therefore doth the heart of the sons of men become bold within them to do evil .
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But though a sinner do evil a hundred times ,
and have his days prolonged ,
yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God ,
that fear before him .
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But it shall not be well with the wicked :
he shall be like a shadow ,
and shall not prolong his days ,
because he feareth not before God .
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There is a vanity which taketh place upon the earth ,
that there are righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked ,
and that there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous .
I said , "
This also is vanity !"
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Then I commended joy ;
because nothing is good for a man under the sun ,
except to eat and to drink and to be joyful ;
for it is this that abideth with him for his labor during the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun .
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When I applied my mind to know wisdom ,
and to see the business which is done upon the earth ,
that one seeth no sleep with his eyes by day or by night ,
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then I saw the whole work of God ,
that a man cannot comprehend that which is done under the sun ;
how much soever he labor to search it out ,
yet shall he not comprehend it ;
yea ,
though a wise man resolve to know it ,
yet shall he not be able to comprehend it .