Popular Bible Verses from Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 8

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Therefore I praised enjoyment, because there is no good to man except to eat, and to drink, and to rejoice – and it remains with him in his labour for the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.

Although a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and his life is prolonged, yet I know that there is good to those who fear Elohim, who fear before Him.

Because for every matter there is a time and right-ruling, though the trouble of man is heavy upon him.

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is filled in them to do evil.

There is a futility which has been done on earth, that there are righteous ones who get according to the deeds of the wrong. And there are wrong ones who get according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this too is futile.

For he does not know what shall be; so who declares to him when it shall be?