21_ECC_08_01 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.
21_ECC_08_02 I [ counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, And [ that] in regard of the oath of God.
21_ECC_08_03 be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
21_ECC_08_04 where the word of A king [ Is, there Is] power: And who may say unto him, what doest thou?
21_ECC_08_05 whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: And A wise man's heart discerneth Both time And judgment.
21_ECC_08_06 because to every purpose there Is time And judgment, therefore the misery of man [ Is] great upon him.
21_ECC_08_07 for he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
21_ECC_08_08 [ 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.
21_ECC_08_09 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.
21_ECC_08_10 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.
21_ECC_08_11 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.
21_ECC_08_12 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:
21_ECC_08_13 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.
21_ECC_08_14 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.
21_ECC_08_15 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.
21_ECC_08_16 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:]
21_ECC_08_17 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].