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be taken by her.
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher,
counting
one by one, to find out
the account:
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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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made
man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
CHAPTER 8
Who
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.
2
I
counsel thee
to keep the king’s
commandment, and
that
in regard of the oath of God.
3
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand
not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4
Where the word of a king
is, there is
power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall
feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man
is
great
upon him.
7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8
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.
9
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.
10
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.
11
Because 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.
12
Though 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:
13
But 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.
14
There 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.
15
Then 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.
16
When 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
Then 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.
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