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Ecclesiastes 8

8 Who is like the wise person,

and who knows the interpretation of a matter?

The wisdom of a person enlightens his face,

and the strength of his face is changed.

2 As for me—listen to the mouth of a king, that is, on account of the oath of God. 3 Do not be terrified from his face. Go! Do not stand in a bad matter, for everything that he pleases, he will do, 4 for the word of a king is authoritative. And who will say to him, “What are you doing?”

5 One who listens to a command will not know a bad matter,

and the heart of a wise person will know the time and procedure.

6 because, for every matter, there is a time and procedure,

because the misfortune of humanity is severe upon him,

7 for, he is not knowing whatever that will be, for, when it will be—

who will declare it to him?

8 There is no person authorized over the wind to restrain the wind,

and there is no authority over the day of death,

and there is no discharge in the war,

and wickedness will not deliver its masters.

9 All this I saw, while giving my heart to every deed that was done under the sun: A time that the person has authority over another person to his harm.
10 And then, I saw wicked people buried, and they entered, and, from a place of holiness, they went. And they were praised in the city where thus they had done. This also is vapor:

11 that a decree against the evil deed is not made quickly—

therefore, the heart of the sons of humanity fills in them to do evil;

12 that a sinner is doing evil a hundred times and lengthening days for himself—

yet also I know that it will be good for those who fear God,

who fear from before his face.

13 But it will not be good for the wicked,

nor will he lengthen his days like the shadow,

because he is not fearing before the face of God.

14 There is vapor that is done on the earth:

that there are righteous people

who it befalls to them like the deeds of the wicked people,

and there are wicked people

who it befalls to them like the deeds of the righteous people.

I say that also this is vapor.

15 And I praised, I, joy—that there is nothing good for humanity under the sun except to eat and to drink and to rejoice. And it will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life that the God has given to him under the sun.
16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on the earth—for even in the day and in the night sleep in his eyes he is not seeing—17 then I saw every deed of the God: that humanity is not able to find the deed that is done under the sun, on account of which humanity toils to seek, yet he will not find, and even if the wise one says to know, he is not able to find.

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