{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/ecclesiastes/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T22:40:00.852Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Ecclesiastes","bookSlug":"ecclesiastes","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":12,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Who <i>is</i> as the wise <i>man</i>? 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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I <i>counsel thee</i> to keep the king's commandment, and <i>that</i> in regard of the oath of God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Where the word of a king <i>is, there is</i> power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man <i>is</i> great upon him."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"<i>There is</i> no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither <i>hath he</i> power in the day of death: and <i>there is</i> no discharge in <i>that</i> war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: <i>there is</i> a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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 <i>is</i> also vanity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his <i>days</i> be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong <i>his</i> days, <i>which are</i> as a shadow; because he feareth not before God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just <i>men</i>, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked <i>men</i>, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also <i>is</i> vanity."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also <i>there is that</i> neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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 <i>it</i> out, yet he shall not find <i>it</i>; yea further; though a wise <i>man</i> think to know <i>it</i>, yet shall he not be able to find <i>it</i>."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ecclesiastes 8 (KJV)","markdown":"[Ecclesiastes 8](https://primebible.com/kjv/ecclesiastes/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/ecclesiastes/8 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}