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|Eclesiastés 8:1|
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man’s face and changes its hard appearance.
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2
|Eclesiastés 8:2|
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.
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3
|Eclesiastés 8:3|
Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
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|Eclesiastés 8:4|
Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
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|Eclesiastés 8:5|
Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
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6
|Eclesiastés 8:6|
For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
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7
|Eclesiastés 8:7|
Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?
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|Eclesiastés 8:8|
No man has power over the wind to contain it; [Or over his spirit to retain it] so no-one has power over the day of his death. As no-one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practise it.
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|Eclesiastés 8:9|
All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own [Or to their] hurt.
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|Eclesiastés 8:10|
Then too, I saw the wicked buried — those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise [Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
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