Ecclesiastes 8:3-12
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3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
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4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
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5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
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6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
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7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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: