Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Who is like
the wise man? Who knows
the interpretation of a matter
? A man’s
wisdom brightens
his face, and the sternness
of his face is
changed.
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.
Keep the king’s
command,
I
say
, because
of your
oath before
God.
I
counsel
thee
to
keep the king's
commandment
, and
that
in
regard
of the
oath of
God.
Do
not hasten
to leave
his presence,
and
do
not persist
in a
bad
cause,
for he will
do
whatever
he
pleases
.
Be
not hasty
to go
out
of
his sight:
stand
not in an
evil
thing;
for he doeth
whatsoever
pleaseth
him
.
For
the king’s
word is supreme
, and who can
say to
him, “
What are
you
doing
? ”
Where
the word of
a
king
is, there
is
power:
and who may
say unto
him, What doest
thou
?
Whoever
keeps
his
command
will
come
to
no harm,
and a wise heart knows
the
right
time and procedure
.
Whoso
keepeth
the
commandment
shall
feel
no evil
thing:
and a wise man's
heart discerneth
both
time and judgment
.
For
there is a
right
time and procedure
to
every
purpose
, though
a
man’s
misery weighs
heavily
upon him.
Because
to
every
purpose
there is time and judgment
, therefore
the
misery of
man
is
great
upon him.
Since
no
one
knows
what
will
happen,
who can tell him what
is
to
come
?
For
he
knoweth
not
that
which
shall
be:
for
who can tell him when
it
shall
be
?
As
no man has
power over the wind
to contain
it,
so
no
one
has
authority
over
his
day of death .
As
no one
can
be
discharged
in wartime,
so
wickedness will
not
release
those who
practice
it.
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.
All this I
have seen, applying
my mind
to
every deed
that is done under the sun ;
there is a time when
one man lords
it
over another to his own detriment
.
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
.
Then
too,
I saw the burial
of
the
wicked who used
to
go
in
and out
of the holy place
, and they were praised
in the city where they had done
so .
This too
is futile
.
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
.
When
the
sentence for
a
crime
is not speedily
executed, the hearts
of men become
fully set on
doing
evil.
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.
Although
a sinner does
evil a
hundred times and still
lives
long
, yet I also
know that it will
go
well with those
who
fear God, who
are
reverent
in
His
presence.
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:
Yet
because
the
wicked
do
not
fear
God,
it will
not go
well with them
, and
their
days will
not
lengthen
like
a shadow.
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
.
There is a futility
that
is done on
the earth :
There are
righteous
men who
get
what
the actions
of the wicked deserve
, and
there are
wicked men who
get
what
the actions
of the righteous deserve.
I say
that this too
is futile
.
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
.
So
I commended the
enjoyment
of
life
, because there
is
nothing
better
for
a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry .
For this
joy
will
accompany
him in
his labor
during
the days of his life that
God gives
him under the sun.
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.
When I applied my
mind
to know wisdom and to observe
the task
that one
performs
on
the earth —though
his
eyes
do
not
see
sleep
in
the
day or
even
in
the
night —
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:)
I saw
every
work of God, and
that a man is
unable
to
comprehend
the work that is done under the sun .
Despite
his
efforts
to search
it out, he cannot
find its
meaning
; even
if
the
wise man claims
to know, he is
unable
to comprehend
.
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
farther;
though
a
wise man think
to know it
, yet
shall
he not
be
able
to find
it
.
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