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ECC 8:1
Ecclesiastes 8:1 |
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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the
interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness
of his face shall be changed. |
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ECC 8:2
Ecclesiastes 8:2 |
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I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment,
and that in regard of the oath of God. |
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ECC 8:3
Ecclesiastes 8:3 |
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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not
in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. |
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ECC 8:4
Ecclesiastes 8:4 |
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Where the word of a king is, there is power:
and who may say unto him, What doest thou? |
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ECC 8:5
Ecclesiastes 8:5 |
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no
evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. |
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ECC 8:6
Ecclesiastes 8:6 |
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,
therefore the misery of man is great upon him. |
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ECC 8:7
Ecclesiastes 8:7 |
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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for
who can tell him when it shall be? |
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ECC 8:8
Ecclesiastes 8:8 |
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There is no man that hath power 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. |
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ECC 8:9
Ecclesiastes 8:9 |
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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto
every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth
over another to his own hurt. |
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ECC 8:10
Ecclesiastes 8:10 |
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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come
and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where
they had so done: this is also vanity. |
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ECC 8:11
Ecclesiastes 8:11 |
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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. |
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ECC 8:12
Ecclesiastes 8:12 |
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Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and
his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that
fear God, which fear before him: |
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ECC 8:13
Ecclesiastes 8:13 |
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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither
shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before
God. |
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ECC 8:14
Ecclesiastes 8:14 |
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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth;
that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;
again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the
righteous: I said that this also is vanity. |
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ECC 8:15
Ecclesiastes 8:15 |
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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no
better thing under the sun, than 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. |
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ECC 8:16
Ecclesiastes 8:16 |
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When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and
to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither
day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) |
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ECC 8:17
Ecclesiastes 8:17 |
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Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man
cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour
to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think
to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. |
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