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Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come? <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment. <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Fear God<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/8.htm#11">Isaiah 8:11–15</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> in the city where they had done so. This too is futile. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Ways Are Mysterious<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts <i>were soon forgotten</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain. Free <a href=http://berean.bible/downloads.htm>downloads</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible/licensing.htm>unlimited usage</a> available. 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