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strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing ? a mans wisdom maketh his face to shine , and the boldness of his face shall be changed .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ I counsel thee to keep the kings commandment , and that in regard of the oath of God .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ Be not hasty to go out of his sight : stand not in an evil thing ; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Where the word of a king is, there is power : and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing : and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and judgment .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment , therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ 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.
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ 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 .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes: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 is also vanity .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes: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 .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ 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:
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ 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 .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ 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 .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes: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 labour the days of his life , which God giveth him under the sun .
strkjv@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ 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 : )
strkjv@Ecclesiastes: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 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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kjv@Ecclesiastes:8:8 > > RandyP : How many have I seen that have fearfully fought to retain the spirit upon their death bed only to drag themselves only further into fear and pain. It is a fearful thing to all but to those prepared to meet their maker it is a much anticipated moment and a short step into His arms.
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