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Ecclesiastes 8:5

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

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:3

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

  2. Ecclesiastes 8:4

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

  3. Ecclesiastes 8:6

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

  4. Ecclesiastes 8:7

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.