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# Chapter 8
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1 Who is like a wise man?
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And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
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A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
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And the sternness of his face is changed.
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2 I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God.
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3 Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”
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4 Where the word of a king is, there is power;
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And who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
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5 He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;
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And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,
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6 Because for every matter there is a time and judgment,
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Though the misery of man increases greatly.
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7 For he does not know what will happen;
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So who can tell him when it will occur?
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8 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
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And no one has power in the day of death.
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There is no release from that war,
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And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
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9 All this I have seen, and applied 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.
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10 Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
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11 Because the 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.
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12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.
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13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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14 There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just 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.
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15 So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,
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17 then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it. |