1Who is like the wise man, and who knoweth the explanation of a thing? A man’s wisdom brighteneth his countenance, and the harshness of his face is changed.

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Acts 6:15, Acts 6:15, Deuteronomy 28:50, Deuteronomy 28:50, Acts 4:29

2I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

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1 Kings 2:43, 1 Kings 2:43, Proverbs 24:21, Titus 3:1, Proverbs 24:21

3Be not in haste to depart from his presence; persist not in an evil thing; for whatever pleaseth him, that he doeth.

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Ecclesiastes 10:4, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Daniel 5:19, Proverbs 14:29, Daniel 4:35

4For the word of the king is powerful; and who can say to him, "What doest thou?"

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Job 9:12, Job 9:12, Daniel 4:35, Romans 13:1, Romans 13:4

5He that keepeth the commandment shall experience no evil; and the heart of the wise man hath regard to time and judgment.

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Hebrews 5:14, Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 3:13, 1 Peter 3:14, Philippians 1:9

6For to every thing there is a time and judgment. For the misery of man is great upon him.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Luke 19:42

7For no one knoweth what shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

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Ecclesiastes 10:14, Ecclesiastes 10:14, Matthew 24:50, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Proverbs 24:22

8No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no man hath power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; and wickedness shall not deliver those that are guilty of it.

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Psalms 89:48, Job 14:5, Psalms 89:48, Job 14:5, Hebrews 9:27

9All this have I seen, and I have given heed to all things that are done under the sun. There is a time when man ruleth over man to his hurt.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 4:7, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 5:13

10And so I saw the wicked buried, while the righteous came and went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Proverbs 10:7, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Proverbs 10:7

11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore doth the heart of the sons of men become bold within them to do evil.

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Isaiah 26:10, Isaiah 26:10, Psalms 50:21, Psalms 50:22, Psalms 50:21

12But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and have his days prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him.

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Psalms 37:11, Psalms 37:11, 2 Peter 2:9, Ecclesiastes 7:15, 2 Peter 2:9

13But it shall not be well with the wicked: he shall be like a shadow, and shall not prolong his days, because he feareth not before God.

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Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Job 14:2, Isaiah 3:11, Job 14:2

14There is a vanity which taketh place upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked, and that there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said, "This also is vanity!"

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Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Malachi 3:15, Ecclesiastes 2:14

15Then I commended joy; because nothing is good for a man under the sun, except to eat and to drink and to be joyful; for it is this that abideth with him for his labor during the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 3:12

16When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business which is done upon the earth,—that one seeth no sleep with his eyes by day or by night,—

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Ecclesiastes 2:23, Psalms 127:2, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 2:23, Psalms 127:2

17then I saw the whole work of God, that a man cannot comprehend that which is done under the sun; how much soever he labor to search it out, yet shall he not comprehend it; yea, though a wise man resolve to know it, yet shall he not be able to comprehend it.

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Ecclesiastes 3:11, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Romans 11:33, Psalms 73:16, Romans 11:33