Ecclesiastes

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Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

 

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Ecclesiastes 7:27
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

 

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Ecclesiastes 7:28
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

 

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Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:1
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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Ecclesiastes 8:2
2 Obey the king's command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:3
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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Ecclesiastes 8:4
4 Since a king's word is supreme, who can say to him, "What are you doing?"

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:5
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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Ecclesiastes 8:6 (KJV) Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:7 (KJV) For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:8 (KJV) 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.

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:9 (KJV) 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.

 

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Ecclesiastes 8:10 (KJV) 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.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:11
11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:12
12 Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:13
13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:14
14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth; righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:15
15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun.

 

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Ecclesiates 8:16
16 So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.