The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (6) Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (7) For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (8) There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (9) All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (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 vanity. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (11) 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. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (12) Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (13) 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 God. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (14) There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vani | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (15) Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (16) When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes: | |
| Ecclesiastes | 8 | (17) Then I beheld all the work of God, that a 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 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (1) FOR ALL this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (2) All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, a | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (3) This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (4) For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (5) For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (6) Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (7) Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. | |
| Ecclesiastes | 9 | (8) Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. | |