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Ecclesiastes 8

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  1. 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.31 cross-references: Acts 6:15, Deuteronomy 28:50, Acts 4:29, Daniel 4:18–19, Acts 4:13
  2. 2I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.24 cross-references: 1 Kings 2:43, Proverbs 24:21, Titus 3:1, 1 Chronicles 29:24, 2 Samuel 21:7
  3. 3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.13 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 10:4, Daniel 5:19, Proverbs 14:29, Daniel 4:35, Acts 5:8–9
  4. 4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?23 cross-references: Job 9:12, Daniel 4:35, Romans 13:1–4, Romans 9:20, Proverbs 20:2
  5. 5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.27 cross-references: Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 3:13–14, Philippians 1:9–10, 1 Corinthians 2:14–15, Luke 20:25
  6. 6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.15 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Luke 19:42–44, Luke 17:26–30, Ecclesiastes 3:11
  7. 7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?14 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 10:14, Matthew 24:50, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Proverbs 24:22, Matthew 25:6–13
  8. 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.34 cross-references: Psalms 89:48, Job 14:5, Hebrews 9:27, Psalms 49:6–9, Isaiah 28:15
  9. 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.17 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 4:7–8, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Exodus 14:28, Ecclesiastes 7:25
  10. 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.20 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 9:5, Proverbs 10:7, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Ecclesiastes 1:11, 2 Kings 9:34–35
  11. 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.44 cross-references: Isaiah 26:10, Psalms 50:21–22, Romans 2:4–5, 2 Peter 3:3–10, Psalms 10:6
  12. 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:54 cross-references: Psalms 37:11, 2 Peter 2:9, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 3:14, Psalms 37:18–19
  13. 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.27 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 6:12, Job 14:2, Isaiah 3:11, Malachi 3:18, Isaiah 57:21
  14. 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.19 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Malachi 3:15, Ecclesiastes 9:1–3, Psalms 73:3
  15. 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.18 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 3:12–13, Ecclesiastes 9:7–9, 1 Timothy 4:3–4
  16. 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:)17 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 2:23, Psalms 127:2, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Genesis 31:40, Ecclesiastes 5:12
  17. 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.16 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 3:11, Romans 11:33, Psalms 73:16, Job 5:9, Ecclesiastes 7:23–24

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