ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 8 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Ecclesiastes Chapter 8.

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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? a mans wisedome maketh his face to shine, and the boldnes of his face shalbe changed.¹

² I counsell thee, to keepe the kings commandement, and that in regard of the oath of God.

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, shall feele no euill thing: and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and iudgement.⁵

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, when it shall be?⁷

⁸ There is no man that hath power ouer the spirit to retaine the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that warre, neither shall wickednesse deliuer those that are giuen to it.⁸

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 it shall be well with them that feare God, which feare before him.¹²

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 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.¹⁴

¹⁵ Then 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.¹⁵

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.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 8 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

¹ Prou.17. 24. , Heb. the strength.
⁵ Heb. shall knew.
⁷ Or, how it shall be?
⁸ Iob 14.5. , Or, casting of weapons.
¹² Psal.37. 10,11,18, 19.
¹⁴ Psa.73.13.
¹⁵ Cha.3.22.

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