Ecclesiastes 8

1 Who? [is] like the wise [person] and who? [is] knowing [the] interpretation of a matter [the] wisdom of anyone it makes shine face his and [the] strength of face his it is changed.

Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.

2 I [the] mouth of a king keep and on [the] cause of [the] oath of God.

I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

3 May not you be hasty from before him you will go may not you stand in a matter evil for all that he will desire he will do.

Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

4 In that a word of a king [is] mastery and who? will he say to him what? are you doing.

The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

5 [one who] keeps A command not he will know a thing evil and an appropriate time and custom it will know a heart wise.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

6 For for every matter there [is] an appropriate time and a custom for [the] trouble of humankind [is] great on him.

For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

7 For not he [is] knowing what? that will it be that just as it will be who? will he tell to him.

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

8 There not [is] anyone having mastery over the wind to restrain the wind and there not [is] mastery over [the] day of death and there not [is] discharge in the battle and not it will rescue wickedness owners its.

No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

9 All this I have seen and I have given heart my to every deed which it is done under the sun a time when he domineers person over a person for evil of him.

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

10 And in such I have seen wicked [people] being buried and they came and from a place of holy they went and they may be forgotten in the city where right they had done also this [is] futility.

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

11 That not it is done [the] sentence of [the] deed of the evil quickly there-fore it is full [the] heart of [the] children of humankind in them to do evil.

Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

12 That a sinner [is] doing evil a hundred [times] and [he is] prolonging for himself for also [am] knowing I that it will belong good to [those] fearing God that they fear from to before him.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

13 And good not it will belong to the wicked and not he will prolong days like shadow that not he he has feared from to before God.

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

14 There [is] futility which it is done on the earth that - there [are] righteous [people] whom [it is] happening to them according to [the] deed[s] of wicked [people] and there [are] wicked [people] [to] whom [it is] happening to them according to [the] deed[s] of righteous [people] I said that also this [is] futility.

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

15 And I commend I gladness that not good [belongs] to humankind under the sun that except to eat and to drink and to be happy and that it will accompany him in toil his [the] days of life his which he has given to him God under the sun.

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

16 When I gave heart my to know wisdom and to see the task which it is done on the earth for also in day and in night sleep in view his not he [is] seeing.

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

17 And I saw all [the] work of God that not he is able humankind to find out the work which it is done under the sun in that that he toils humankind to seek and not he will find out and also if he will say the wise [person] to know not he will be able to find out.

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.