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## Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 in Context (Verses 1–12 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/1) 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.*
 
 [2 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/2) I *counsel thee* to keep the king’s commandment, and *that* in regard of the oath of God.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/3) Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/4) Where the word of a king *is, there is* power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
 
 [5 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/5) Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/6) ¶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man *is* great upon him.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/7) For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/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.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/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 7](/kjv/ecclesiastes/7) [Ecclesiastes 9](/kjv/ecclesiastes/9)

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