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title: "Ecclesiastes 8:6-14 KJV - \"Because to every purpose there is time...\" | Real Bible Believers"
description: "\"Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which\" — Read Ecclesiastes 8:6-14 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Ecclesiastes 8:6-14 in Context (Verses 3–17 KJV)
 
 [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:
 
 [13 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/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.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/14) 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.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/15) 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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/16) ¶ 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:)
 
 [17 ](/kjv/ecclesiastes/8/17) 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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