Ch 8 / 12~2 min
Kohelet

Chapter 8

The Righteous Will Be Well Before Elohim

No man has power over the spirit or over the day of his death — yet Yeshua alone laid down His life voluntarily and took it again, the one Adonai over life and death.

  1. Wisdom and Authority

    Wisdom brightens the face. Knowing how to navigate authority and timing is part of godly living.

  2. 1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
  3. 2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to Elohim.
  4. 3Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
  5. 4for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
  6. 5Whoever keeps the mitzvah shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
  7. 6For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
  8. 7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
  9. 8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practise it.
  10. 9All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
  11. The Mystery of Elohim's Justice

    The wicked sometimes receive honour, and the righteous are forgotten. But Elohim's justice will have the final word.

  12. 10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
  13. 11Because 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.
  14. 12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear Elohim, who are reverent before him.
  15. 13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear Elohim.
  16. 14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
  17. 15Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.
  18. 16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
  19. 17then I saw all the work of Elohim, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labours to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
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