Ecclesiastes 8

1 Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.

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2 Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.

I lip: word king to keep: obey and upon cause oath God

3 Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.

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4 For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

in/on/with in which word king power and who? to say to/for him what? to make: do

5 Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

to keep: obey commandment not to know word: thing bad: evil and time and justice: custom to know heart wise

6 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

for to/for all pleasure there time and justice: custom for distress: harm [the] man many upon him

7 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

for nothing he to know what? which/that to be for like/as as which to be who? to tell to/for him

8 As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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9 All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

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10 Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

and in/on/with so to see: see wicked to bury and to come (in): come and from place holy to go: went and to forget in/on/with city which right to make: do also this vanity

11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

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13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

and pleasant not to be to/for wicked and not to prolong day like/as shadow which nothing he afraid from to/for face: before God

14 There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

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15 So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

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16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

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17 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.

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