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CHAP. VIII.
1 Kings are greatly to bee respected. 6 The
Diuine prouidence is to be obserued. 12 It
is better with the godly in aduersitie, then
with the wicked in prosperity. 16 The worke
of God is vnsearchable.
1
Who is as the Wise man?
and who knoweth the interpretation
of a thing?
note a mans wisedome maketh
his face to shine, and
note the boldnes of his face shalbe changed.
2
I counsell thee, to keepe the kings
commandement, and that in regard of
the oath of God.
The kings power.
3
Bee not hastie to goe out of his
sight: stand not in an euill thing, for he
doeth whatsoeuer pleaseth him.
4
Where the word of a king is, there
is power: and who may say vnto him,
What doest thou?
5
Whoso keepeth the commandement,
note shall feele no euill thing: and a
wise mans heart discerneth both time
and iudgement.
6
¶ Because to euery purpose there
is time, and iudgement; therefore the
misery of man is great vpon him.
7
For hee knoweth not that which
shall be: for who can tell him, note when it
shall be?
8
There is no man that hath power
note ouer the spirit to retaine the spirit; neither
hath he power in the day of death:
and there is no note discharge in that warre,
neither shall wickednesse deliuer those
that are giuen to it.
9
All this haue I seene, and applied
my heart vnto euery worke that is
done vnder the Sunne: there is a time
wherein one man ruleth ouer another
to his owne hurt.
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 vanitie.
11
Because sentence against an euill
worke is not executed speedily; therefore
the heart of the sonnes of men is
fully set in them to doe euill.
12
¶ Though a sinner doe euill an
hundred times, and his dayes be prolonged;
yet surely I know that note it shall be
well with them that feare God, which
feare before him.
13
But it shall not be well with the
wicked, neither shall hee prolong his
dayes which are as a shadow; because
he feareth not before God.
14
There is a vanitie which is done
vpon the earth, that there be iust men
vnto whom it note happeneth according to
the worke of the wicked: againe, there
be wicked men, to whom it happeneth
according to the worke of the righteous:
I said, that this also is vanitie.
15
noteThen I commended mirth, because
a man hath no better thing vnder
the Sunne, then to eate and to drinke,
and to be merrie: for that shall abide
with him of his labour, the dayes of
his life, which God giueth him vnder
the Sunne.
-- --
All are alike.
16
¶ When I applied mine heart to
know wisedome, and to see the busines
that is done vpon the earth: (for also
there is that neither day nor night seeth
sleepe with his eyes.)
17
Then I behelde all the worke of
God, that a man cannot finde out the
worke that is done vnder the Sunne:
because though a man labour to seeke it
out, yea further though a wise man
thinke to know it, yet shall hee not be
able to finde it.
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King James Bible, 1611 [1611], THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Testament, AND THE NEW: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall C&obar;mandement Appointed to be read in Churches (Imprinted... by Robert Barker [etc.], London) [word count] [B10000].
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