Ecclesiastes 8 — Logos by Kai'Ros

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Ecclesiastes

Chapter 8

KJV · Textus Receptus

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 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

1Hwan na ɔte sɛ onyansafoɔ? na hwan na ɔnim asɛm nkyerɛaseɛ? onipa nyansa ma n'anim hyerɛn, na n'anim den bɛsakra.Under pastoral review

2Metu wo fo sɛ di ɔhene ahyɛdeɛ so, ɛsiane Onyankopɔn ntam no enti.Under pastoral review

3Mmpere sɛ wobɛfiri n'anim akɔ: nnyina asɛm bɔne mu; ɛfiri sɛ ɔyɛ biribiara a ɔpɛ.Under pastoral review

4Baabi a ɔhene asɛm wɔ no, tumi wɔ hɔ: na hwan na ɔbɛtumi aka akyerɛ no sɛ, Ɛdeɛn na woreyɛ?Under pastoral review

5Deɛ ɔdi ahyɛdeɛ so no renhunu bɔne biara: na onyansafoɔ akoma hunu berɛ ne atemmuo nyinaa.Under pastoral review

6Ɛfiri sɛ botaeɛ biara wɔ ne berɛ ne n'atemmuo, ɛno enti onipa amanehunu yɛ kɛseɛ wɔ ne so.Under pastoral review

7Ɛfiri sɛ ɔnnim deɛ ɛbɛba: na hwan na ɔbɛtumi aka akyerɛ no berɛ a ɛbɛba?Under pastoral review

8Onipa biara nni hɔ a ɔwɔ honhom so tumi sɛ ɔbɛkora honhom; na ɔnni tumi owuo da mu: na ɔgyeɛ biara nni saa ɔko no mu; na bɔne rennye wɔn a wɔde wɔn ho ama no.Under pastoral review

9Mahunu yei nyinaa, na mede m'akoma ato adwuma biara a wɔyɛ wɔ owia ase so: berɛ bi wɔ hɔ a onipa baako di ɔfoforɔ so de haw ne ho.Under pastoral review

10Na mehunuu sɛ wɔsiee adebɔneyɛfoɔ, wɔn a wɔbaa na wɔfirii beaeɛ kronkron hɔ kɔeɛ, na wɔn werɛ firii wɔn wɔ kuropɔn a wɔyɛɛ saa wɔ mu no: yei nso yɛ ahuhudeɛ.Under pastoral review

11Ɛfiri sɛ wɔntwe adwuma bɔne so aso ntɛm, ɛno enti nnipa mma akoma asi wɔn mu sɛ wɔbɛyɛ bɔne.Under pastoral review

12Ɛwom sɛ ɔbɔnefoɔ yɛ bɔne mpɛn ɔha, na ne nna ware deɛ, nanso nokorɛ menim sɛ ɛbɛsi wɔn a wɔsuro Onyankopɔn, wɔn a wɔsuro n'anim no, yie:Under pastoral review

13Nanso ɛrensi ɔdebɔneyɛni yie, na ne nna renware, deɛ ɛte sɛ sunsuma; ɛfiri sɛ ɔnsuro Onyankopɔn anim.Under pastoral review

14Ahuhudeɛ bi wɔ hɔ a wɔyɛ wɔ asase so; sɛ ateneneefoɔ wɔ hɔ a ɛto wɔn sɛdeɛ adebɔneyɛfoɔ adwuma teɛ; bio, adebɔneyɛfoɔ wɔ hɔ a ɛto wɔn sɛdeɛ ateneneefoɔ adwuma teɛ: mekaa sɛ yei nso yɛ ahuhudeɛ.Under pastoral review

15Afei mekamfoo anigyeɛ, ɛfiri sɛ onipa nni adeɛ pa biara wɔ owia ase, sene sɛ ɔbɛdidi, na wanom, na n'ani agye: ɛfiri sɛ ɛno na ɛbɛka ne ho wɔ n'adwuma mu ne nkwa nna mu, deɛ Onyankopɔn de ma no wɔ owia ase.Under pastoral review

16Ɛberɛ a mede m'akoma too so sɛ mɛhunu nyansa, na mahunu adwuma a wɔyɛ wɔ asase so: (ɛfiri sɛ obi wɔ hɔ a ɔnnya nna awia anaa anadwo:)Under pastoral review

17Afei mehwɛɛ Onyankopɔn adwuma nyinaa, sɛ onipa rentumi nhunu adwuma a wɔyɛ wɔ owia ase: ɛfiri sɛ ɛwom sɛ onipa brɛ sɛ ɔbɛhwehwɛ mu deɛ, nanso ɔrenhunu; aane bio; ɛwom sɛ onyansafoɔ susu sɛ ɔbɛhunu deɛ, nanso ɔrentumi nhunu.Under pastoral review

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