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Ecclesiastes 8

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1Who 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 6:15Deut 28:502 Pet 1:202 Tim 4:17Acts 4:13Acts 4:29Dan 4:18-19Eccl 2:13-14Exod 34:29-30Job 33:23

2I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:21Titus 3:11 Kgs 2:431 Pet 2:13-17Rom 13:1-51 Chr 29:242 Sam 21:7Exod 22:11Ezek 17:13-20

3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 10:4Acts 5:8-9Dan 4:35Dan 5:19Prov 14:291 Kgs 1:50-521 Kgs 2:21-24Isa 48:4Jer 44:16-17Prov 16:14-15

4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 9:12Rom 13:1-4Dan 4:35Prov 20:2Job 34:18-19Prov 19:12Rom 9:201 Kgs 2:251 Kgs 2:29-341 Kgs 2:46

5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Heb 5:141 Pet 3:13-14Phil 1:9-101 Chr 12:32Acts 4:19Luke 20:25Rom 13:5-71 Cor 2:14-15Acts 5:29Eccl 10:2

6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 3:1Eccl 3:17Eccl 3:11Luke 19:42-44Eccl 7:13-14Luke 17:26-30Eccl 11:9-12:1Heb 3:7-11Isa 22:12-14Isa 3:11-14

7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 10:14Eccl 6:12Eccl 9:12Matt 24:50Prov 24:22Eccl 3:22Matt 24:44Matt 25:6-13Prov 29:11 Thess 5:1-3

8There 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 14:5Ps 89:48Heb 9:27Ps 49:6-9Eccl 3:21Isa 28:15Prov 14:32Ps 9:171 Cor 15:432 Cor 13:4

9All 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 5:8Eccl 4:7-8Eccl 5:132 Kgs 14:10-12Deut 2:30Eccl 1:14Eccl 3:10Eccl 7:25Exod 14:28Exod 14:5-9

10And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 2:16Eccl 9:5Prov 10:72 Kgs 9:34-35Acts 6:13Eccl 1:11Heb 10:38Jer 17:13Job 21:18Job 21:32-33

11Because 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 26:10Ps 50:21-22Rom 2:4-52 Pet 3:3-10Matt 24:49-50Ps 10:6Jer 48:11Job 21:11-15Exod 8:15Isa 5:18-19

12Though 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 37:112 Pet 2:9Luke 1:50Eccl 7:15Eccl 3:14Isa 3:10-11Ps 37:18-19Isa 65:20-24Rom 9:22Matt 25:34

13But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 6:12Isa 3:11Job 14:2Isa 57:21Mal 3:182 Pet 2:3Isa 30:13Jas 4:14Job 18:5Job 20:5

14There 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:15Eccl 2:14Mal 3:15Eccl 9:1-3Job 21:7Ps 73:12-14Ps 73:3Eccl 10:5Eccl 4:4Eccl 4:8

15Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 2:24Eccl 5:18Eccl 3:12-13Eccl 9:7-91 Tim 4:3-41 Tim 6:17Eccl 3:22

16When 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:) Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 2:23Eccl 1:13Ps 127:2Eccl 4:8Eccl 5:12Eccl 7:25Eccl 8:7Eccl 8:9Gen 31:40

17Then 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 further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 3:11Ps 73:16Rom 11:33Eccl 7:23-24Isa 40:28Job 5:9Eccl 11:5Job 11:7-9Prov 30:3-4Ps 40:5

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