Book 33 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 008
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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation
of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his
face is changed
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I counsel thee: keep the king's command, and that in regard
of the oath of G-d
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Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an
evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him
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Forasmuch as the king's word hath power; and who may say
unto him: 'What doest thou?
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and
a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment
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For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the
evil of man is great upon him
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For he knoweth not that which shall be; for even when it
cometh to pass, who shall declare it unto him
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There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the
wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in
war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it
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All this have I seen, even applied my heart thereto,
whatever the work that is done under the sun; what time one man had power over
another to his hurt
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And so I saw the wicked buried, and they entered into
their rest; but they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were
forgotten in the city; this also is vanity
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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
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because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and
prolongeth his days--though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear
G-d, that fear before Him
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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 G-d
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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: that there
are righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;
again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the
righteous--I said that this also is vanity
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So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing
under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should
accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which G-d hath given him
under the sun
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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the
business that is done upon the earth--for neither day nor night do men see sleep
with their eyes-
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then I beheld all the work of G-d, that 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
Book 33 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - ECCLESIASTES - Chapter 008
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