Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 8

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So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.

As no-one has power over the wind to contain it, so no-one has power over the time of their death. As no-one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practise it.

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

Since no-one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?