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8:1  2 To obey Princes and Magistrates. 17 The works of God pass man’s knowledge. Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? the wisdom of a man doth make his face to shine: and the strength of his face shall be changed.
8:2  I advertise thee to take heed to the mouth of the king, and to the word of the oath of God.
8:3  Haste not to go forth of his sight: stand not in an evil thing: for he will do whatsoever pleaseth him.
8:4  Where the word of the King is, there is power, and who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
8:5  He that keepeth the commandment, shall know none evil thing, and the heart of the wise shall know the time, and judgment.
8:6  For to every purpose there is a time and judgment, because the misery of man is great upon him.
8:7  For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8:8  Man is not Lord over the spirit to retain the spirit: neither hath he power in the day of death, nor deliverance in the battle, neither shall wickedness deliver the possessors thereof.
8:9  All this have I seen, and have given mine heart to every work which is wrought under the sun, and I saw a time that man ruleth over man to his own hurt.
8:10  And likewise I saw the wicked buried, and they returned, and they that came from the holy place, were yet forgotten in the city, where they had done right: this also is vanity.
8:11  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.
8:12  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and God prolongeth his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear the Lord, and do reverence before him.
8:13  But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days: he shall be like a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
8:14  There is a vanity, which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it cometh according to the work of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it cometh according to the work of the just: I thought also that this is vanity.
8:15  And I praised joy, for there is no goodness to man under the sun, save to eat and to drink and to rejoice: for this is adjoined to his labor the days of his life that God hath given him under the sun.
8:16  When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to behold the business that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleep,
8:17  Then I beheld the whole work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is wrought under the sun: for the which man laboreth to seek it, and cannot find it: yea, and though the wise man think to know it, he cannot find it.