NITHYAM SONGSEcclesiastes 8
World English Bible (WEB) • 17 verses
1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
3Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
4for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
5Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
RelatedHebrews 5:14 · 1 Peter 3:13-14 · Philippians 1:9-10 · Acts 4:19 · 1 Chronicles 12:32 · Luke 20:25
6For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
RelatedEcclesiastes 3:1 · Ecclesiastes 3:17 · Luke 19:42-44 · Ecclesiastes 3:11 · Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 · Luke 17:26-30
7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
RelatedEcclesiastes 10:14 · Proverbs 24:22 · Matthew 24:50 · Ecclesiastes 9:12 · Ecclesiastes 6:12 · Ecclesiastes 3:22
8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
9All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
RelatedEcclesiastes 5:8 · Ecclesiastes 5:13 · Ecclesiastes 4:7-8 · 2 Kings 14:10-12 · Ecclesiastes 3:10 · Exodus 14:5-9
10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
RelatedProverbs 10:7 · Ecclesiastes 9:5 · Ecclesiastes 2:16 · Job 21:32-33 · Acts 6:13 · 2 Kings 9:34-35
11Because 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.
RelatedIsaiah 26:10 · Romans 2:4-5 · Psalms 50:21-22 · 2 Peter 3:3-10 · Matthew 24:49-50 · Psalms 10:6
12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
RelatedPsalms 37:11 · Luke 1:50 · 2 Peter 2:9 · Ecclesiastes 7:15 · Ecclesiastes 3:14 · Psalms 37:18-19
13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
RelatedEcclesiastes 7:15 · Ecclesiastes 2:14 · Malachi 3:15 · Ecclesiastes 9:1-3 · Psalms 73:3 · Job 21:7
15Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
RelatedEcclesiastes 2:24 · Ecclesiastes 5:18 · Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 · Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 · 1 Timothy 4:3-4 · Ecclesiastes 3:22
16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
RelatedEcclesiastes 2:23 · Ecclesiastes 1:13 · Psalms 127:2 · Ecclesiastes 8:9 · Genesis 31:40 · Ecclesiastes 8:7
17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
RelatedEcclesiastes 3:11 · Psalms 73:16 · Romans 11:33 · Ecclesiastes 7:23-24 · Isaiah 40:28 · Job 5:9
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.