Ecclesiastes Chapter 8

• Ecclesiastes 8:1
  Ecclesiastes.
• Ecclesiastes 8:2
  Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
• Ecclesiastes 8:3
  I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
• Ecclesiastes 8:4
  Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
• Ecclesiastes 8:5
  for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
• Ecclesiastes 8:6
  Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
• Ecclesiastes 8:7
  For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
• Ecclesiastes 8:8
  For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
• Ecclesiastes 8:9
  There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; n...
• Ecclesiastes 8:10
  All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hur...
• Ecclesiastes 8:11
  So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
• Ecclesiastes 8:12
  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.
• Ecclesiastes 8:13
  Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent bef...
• Ecclesiastes 8:14
  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
• Ecclesiastes 8:15
  There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wi...
• Ecclesiastes 8:16
  Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his la...
• Ecclesiastes 8:17
  When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
• Ecclesiastes 8:18
  then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he ...