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.
I counsel thee to keep
the king's
commandment,
and that in regard
of the oath
of God.
Be not hasty
to go out
of his sight:
stand
not in an evil
thing;
for he doeth
whatsoever pleaseth
him.
Where the word
of a king
is, there is power:
and who may say
unto him, What doest
thou?
Whoso keepeth
the commandment
shall feel
no evil
thing:
and a wise man's
heart
discerneth
both time
and judgment.
Because to every purpose
there is
time
and judgment,
therefore the misery
of man
is great
upon him.
For he knoweth
not that which shall be: for who can tell
him when it shall be?
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.
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.
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.
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.
controversy
ἀντίρρησις
antirrēsis
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:
length
μακρότητος
makrotētos
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.
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.
say
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.
present together
συμπροσέσται
symprosestai
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:
)
distraction
περισπασμὸν
perispasmon
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.
weary with toil
μοχθήσῃ
mochthēsē
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