Ecclesiastes 8 — The Holy Bible — King James Version

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 8

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Ecclesiastes

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In this chapter the wise man reflects on the futility of seeking wealth and pleasure, noting that they bring only temporary satisfaction. He reminds readers that the fear of God and reverence for the law are the only lasting comforts, urging a return to moral values over fleeting earthly desires.

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(1) Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 Ecclesiastes 2:14 I Corinthians 2:13 I Corinthians 2:14 I Corinthians 2:15 I Corinthians 2:16 Genesis 40:8 Genesis 41:15 Genesis 41:16 Genesis 41:38 Genesis 41:39 Job 33:23

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Ecclesiastes 2:19 Isaiah 44:25 Daniel 2:24 Daniel 4:18 Daniel 5:15 Psalms 104:15

(2) I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

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Proverbs 24:21 Romans 13:1 Romans 13:2 Romans 13:3 Romans 13:4 Titus 3:1 I Peter 2:13 I Peter 2:14 I Peter 2:15 I Peter 2:16 I Peter 2:17 I Kings 2:43

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Esther 3:3 Esther 8:8 II Chronicles 25:16 II Chronicles 29:25 Esther 2:8 Esther 3:12

(3) Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

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Ecclesiastes 10:4 Proverbs 14:29 I Kings 1:50 I Kings 1:51 I Kings 1:52 I Kings 2:21 I Kings 2:22 I Kings 2:23 I Kings 2:24 Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 44:16 Jeremiah 44:17

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Philippians 4:8 Leviticus 11:42 Ecclesiastes 3:14

(4) Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

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I Kings 2:25 I Kings 2:29 I Kings 2:30 I Kings 2:31 I Kings 2:32 I Kings 2:33 I Kings 2:34 I Kings 2:46 Proverbs 19:12 Proverbs 20:2 Proverbs 30:31 Daniel 3:15

(5) Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

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Ecclesiastes 8:2 Exodus 1:17 Exodus 1:20 Exodus 1:21 Psalms 119:6 Hosea 5:11 Luke 20:25 Acts 4:19 Acts 5:29 Romans 13:5 Romans 13:6 Romans 13:7

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Proverbs 28:7 Proverbs 21:23 Numbers 9:23 Proverbs 19:16 I John 2:7

(6) Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 Ecclesiastes 3:11 Ecclesiastes 3:17 Ecclesiastes 7:13 Ecclesiastes 7:14 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Ecclesiastes 11:10 Ecclesiastes 12:1 Isaiah 3:11 Isaiah 3:12 Isaiah 3:13 Isaiah 3:14

(7) For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 9:12 Ecclesiastes 10:14 Proverbs 24:22 Proverbs 29:1 Matthew 24:44 Matthew 24:50 Matthew 25:6 Matthew 25:7 Matthew 25:8 Matthew 25:9 Matthew 25:10

(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.

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Ecclesiastes 3:21 II Samuel 14:14 Job 14:5 Job 34:14 Psalms 49:6 Psalms 49:7 Psalms 49:8 Psalms 49:9 Psalms 89:48 Hebrews 9:27 I Corinthians 15:43 II Corinthians 13:4

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Jeremiah 44:9 Daniel 8:24 Luke 10:19 John 10:18 John 19:10 I Corinthians 7:4

(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.

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Ecclesiastes 1:14 Ecclesiastes 3:10 Ecclesiastes 4:7 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Ecclesiastes 7:25 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Ecclesiastes 5:13 Exodus 14:5 Exodus 14:6 Exodus 14:7 Exodus 14:8 Exodus 14:9

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Ecclesiastes 2:19

(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.

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II Kings 9:34 II Kings 9:35 Job 21:18 Job 21:32 Job 21:33 Luke 16:22 Psalms 122:1 Psalms 122:2 Psalms 122:3 Psalms 122:4 Psalms 122:5 Acts 6:13

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Genesis 49:31 Ecclesiastes 1:2

(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.

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Exodus 8:15 Exodus 8:32 Job 21:11 Job 21:12 Job 21:13 Job 21:14 Job 21:15 Psalms 10:6 Psalms 50:21 Psalms 50:22 Isaiah 5:18 Isaiah 5:19

(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:

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Ecclesiastes 5:16 Ecclesiastes 7:15 I Kings 2:5 I Kings 2:6 I Kings 2:7 I Kings 2:8 I Kings 2:9 I Kings 21:25 I Kings 22:34 I Kings 22:35 Proverbs 13:21 Isaiah 65:20

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II Kings 4:26 Jeremiah 44:25 Jeremiah 4:30 I Corinthians 7:30 II Corinthians 7:8

(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.

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Job 18:5 Job 20:5 Job 21:30 Psalms 11:5 Isaiah 57:21 Malachi 3:18 Matthew 13:49 Matthew 13:50 John 5:29 Psalms 55:23 Isaiah 30:13 II Peter 2:3

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(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 vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 4:4 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Ecclesiastes 9:3 Ecclesiastes 10:5 Ecclesiastes 2:14 Ecclesiastes 7:15 Ecclesiastes 9:1 Ecclesiastes 9:2 Job 9:22 Job 9:23 Job 9:24 Job 21:17

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Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 2:15 Leviticus 19:36 Job 15:31 Psalms 62:9 Ecclesiastes 9:9

(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.

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Ecclesiastes 2:24 Ecclesiastes 3:12 Ecclesiastes 3:13 Ecclesiastes 3:22 Ecclesiastes 5:18 Ecclesiastes 9:7 Ecclesiastes 9:8 Ecclesiastes 9:9 I Timothy 4:3 I Timothy 4:4 I Timothy 6:17

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Ecclesiastes 9:9 Jonah 4:8 Joshua 10:13 II Kings 23:11 Ecclesiastes 1:5 Ecclesiastes 5:18

(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:)

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Ecclesiastes 8:9 Ecclesiastes 8:7 Ecclesiastes 7:25 Ecclesiastes 2:23 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Ecclesiastes 5:12 Genesis 31:40 Psalms 127:2

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I Thessalonians 5:7 I Kings 4:30

(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 it.

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Ecclesiastes 3:11 Ecclesiastes 7:23 Ecclesiastes 7:24 Ecclesiastes 11:5 Job 5:9 Job 11:7 Job 11:8 Job 11:9 Psalms 40:5 Psalms 73:16 Psalms 104:24 Proverbs 30:3

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Jeremiah 4:30 I Samuel 9:13 Job 11:7 Psalms 21:8 Daniel 6:4 Daniel 6:5

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