{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Ecclesiastes",
 "chapter": 8,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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:)"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "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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 "next": "/bible/ecclesiastes/9/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}