The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:19 (LEB)

Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 7:20 (WEB)
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:21 (WEB)

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 7:22 (WEB)

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:23 (NASB)

I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 7:24 (NASB)

What has been is remote and exceedingly mysterious. Who can discover it?

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Ecc 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Ecc 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Ecc 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Ecc 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 8:1 (ASV)

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 hardness of his face is changed.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 8:2 (ASV)

I counsel thee, Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 8:3 (NKJV)
3 Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 8:4 (NKJV)
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power;
And who may say to him, “What are you doing?”

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 8:5 (NKJV)
5 He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;
And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 8:6 (NKJV)
6 Because for every matter there is a time and judgment,
Though the misery of man increases greatly.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 8:7 (NASB)

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 8:8 (NASB)

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 8:9 (NASB)

All this I have seen and applied my mind to every deed that has been done under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over another man to his hurt.