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Ecclesiastes 8:2-17

8:2

I [counsel thee] to keep
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the king's
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commandment
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and [that] in regard
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of the oath
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of God
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8:3

Be not hasty
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to go out
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of his sight
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stand
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not in an evil
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thing
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for he doeth
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whatsoever pleaseth
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him.

8:4

Where the word
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of a king
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[is, there is] power
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and who may say
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unto him, What doest
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thou?

8:5

Whoso keepeth
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the commandment
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shall feel
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no evil
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thing
<01697>_:

and a wise man's
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heart
<03820>

discerneth
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both time
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and judgment
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{shall...: Heb. shall know}

8:6

Because to every purpose
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there is
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time
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and judgment
<04941>_,

therefore the misery
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of man
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[is] great
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upon him.

8:7

For he knoweth
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not that which shall be: for who can tell
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him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

8:8

[There is] no man
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that hath power
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over the spirit
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to retain
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the spirit
<07307>_;

neither [hath he] power
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in the day
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of death
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and [there is] no discharge
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in [that] war
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neither shall wickedness
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deliver
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those that are given
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to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}

8:9

All this have I seen
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and applied
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my heart
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unto every work
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that is done
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under the sun
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[there is] a time
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wherein one man
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ruleth
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over another to his own hurt
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8:10

And so
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I saw
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the wicked
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buried
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who had come
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and gone
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from the place
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of the holy
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and they were forgotten
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in the city
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where they had so done
<06213> (8804)_:

this [is] also vanity
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8:11

Because sentence
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against an evil
<07451>

work
<04639>

is not executed
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speedily
<04120>_,

therefore the heart
<03820>

of the sons
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of men
<0120>

is fully set
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in them to do
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evil
<07451>_.

8:12

Though a sinner
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do
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evil
<07451>

an hundred times
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and his [days] be prolonged
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yet surely I know
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that it shall be well
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with them that fear
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God
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which fear
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before
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him:

8:13

But it shall not be well
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with the wicked
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neither shall he prolong
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[his] days
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[which are] as a shadow
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because he feareth
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not before
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God
<0430>_.

8:14

There is
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a vanity
<01892>

which is done
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upon the earth
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that there be just
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[men], unto whom it happeneth
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according to the work
<04639>

of the wicked
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again, there be
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wicked
<07563>

[men], to whom it happeneth
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according to the work
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of the righteous
<06662>_:

I said
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that this also
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[is] vanity
<01892>_.

8:15

Then I commended
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mirth
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because a man
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hath no better thing
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under the sun
<08121>_,

than to eat
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and to drink
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and to be merry
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for that shall abide
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with him of his labour
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the days
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of his life
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which God
<0430>

giveth
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him under the sun
<08121>_.

8:16

When I applied
<05414> (8804)

mine heart
<03820>

to know
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wisdom
<02451>_,

and to see
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the business
<06045>

that is done
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upon the earth
<0776>_:

(for also [there is that] neither day
<03117>

nor night
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seeth
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sleep
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with his eyes
<05869>:)

8:17

Then I beheld
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all the work
<04639>

of God
<0430>_,

that a man
<0120>

cannot
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find out
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the work
<04639>

that is done
<06213> (8738)

under the sun
<08121>_:

because
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though
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a man
<0120>

labour
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to seek [it] out
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yet he shall not find
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[it]; yea further; though a wise
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[man] think
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to know
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[it], yet shall he not be able
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to find
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[it].