-
|Eclesiastes 8:1| 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.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:2| I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:3| Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:4| for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:5| Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:6| For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:7| For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:8| 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; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:9| 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 hurt.
-
-
-
|Eclesiastes 8:10| 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.
-
-
Português
Italiano
Espanhol
Inglês
Francês
Árabe
Mandarim
Hindu
Alemão
World English Bible
