Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 8

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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.

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.

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

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.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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.

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?