Book 21 : ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 008
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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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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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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say
unto him, What doest thou
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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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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore
the misery of man is great upon him
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Book 21 : ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 008
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