传道书 Ecclesiastes 8 << || >>

	8:1	Who as the wise ? 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.
	8:2	I to keep the king's commandment, and in regard of the oath of God.
	8:3	Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him.
	8:4	Where the word of a king , power: and who may say to him, what doest thou?
	8:5	He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
	8:6	Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man great upon him.
	8:7	For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
	8:8	no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither power in the day of death: and no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
	8:9	All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
	8:10	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 also vanity.
	8:11	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.
	8:12	Though a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and his are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:
	8:13	But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong days, as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
	8:14	There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just , to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked , to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also vanity.
	8:15	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 labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
	8:16	When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
	8:17	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 may labor to seek out, yet he shall not find ; yes further; though a wise thinketh to know , yet shall he not be able to find .