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Ecclesiastes Chapter 8

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ECCLESIASTES

Ecclesiastes 8

1Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? the wisedome of a man doth make his face to shine: and the strength of his face shalbe changed.
Acts 6:15, Acts 6:15, Deuteronomy 28:50, Deuteronomy 28:50, Acts 4:29
2I aduertise thee to take heede to ye mouth of the King, and to the worde of the othe of God.
1 Kings 2:43, 1 Kings 2:43, Proverbs 24:21, Titus 3:1, Proverbs 24:21
3Haste not to goe forth of his sight: stand not in an euill thing: for he will doe whatsoeuer pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes 10:4, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Daniel 5:19, Proverbs 14:29, Daniel 4:35
4Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?
Job 9:12, Job 9:12, Daniel 4:35, Romans 13:1, Romans 13:4
5He that keepeth the commandement, shall knowe none euill thing, and the heart of the wise shall knowe the time and iudgement.
Hebrews 5:14, Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 3:13, 1 Peter 3:14, Philippians 1:9
6For to euery purpose there is a time and iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him.
Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Luke 19:42
7For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?
Ecclesiastes 10:14, Ecclesiastes 10:14, Matthew 24:50, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Proverbs 24:22
8Man is not lorde ouer the spirit to retaine the spirite: neither hath hee power in the day of death, nor deliuerance in the battell, neither shall wickednesse deliuer the possessers thereof.
Psalms 89:48, Job 14:5, Psalms 89:48, Job 14:5, Hebrews 9:27
9All this haue I seene, and haue giuen mine heart to euery worke, which is wrought vnder the sunne, and I sawe a time that man ruleth ouer man to his owne hurt.
Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 4:7, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 5:13
10And likewise I sawe the wicked buried, and they returned, and they that came from the holy place, were yet forgotten in the citie where they had done right: this also is vanitie.
Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Proverbs 10:7, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Proverbs 10:7
11Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.
Isaiah 26:10, Isaiah 26:10, Psalms 50:21, Psalms 50:22, Psalms 50:21
12Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.
Psalms 37:11, Psalms 37:11, 2 Peter 2:9, Ecclesiastes 7:15, 2 Peter 2:9
13But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Job 14:2, Isaiah 3:11, Job 14:2
14There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.
Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Malachi 3:15, Ecclesiastes 2:14
15And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.
Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 3:12
16When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,
Ecclesiastes 2:23, Psalms 127:2, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 2:23, Psalms 127:2
17Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.
Ecclesiastes 3:11, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Romans 11:33, Psalms 73:16, Romans 11:33

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