8:1 Who {is} as the wise {man}? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. 
8:1 Who {is} as the wise {man}? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. 

8:2 I {counsel thee} to keep the king's commandment, and {that} in regard of the oath of God. 
8:2 I {counsel thee} to keep the king's commandment, and {that} in regard of the oath of God. 

8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him. 
8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him. 

8:4 Where the word of a king {is}, {there is} power: and who may say to him, what doest thou? 
8:4 Where the word of a king {is, there is} power: and who may say to him, What doest thou? 

8:5 He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. 
8:5 He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. 

8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him. 
8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him. 

8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 
8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 

8:8 {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. 
8:8 {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. 

8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: {there is} a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 
8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: {there is} a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 

8:10 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. 
8:10 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. 

8:11 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. 
8:11 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. 

8:12 Though a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and his {days} are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with them that fear God, who fear before him: 
8:12 Though a sinner doeth evil an hundred times, and his {days} are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him: 

8:13 But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. 
8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. 

8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also {is} vanity. 
8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also {is} vanity. 

8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. 
8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. 

8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also {there is that} neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) 
8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also {there is that} neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) 

8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labor to seek {it} out, yet he shall not find {it}; yes further; though a wise {man} thinketh to know {it}, yet shall he not be able to find {it}. 
8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labour to seek {it} out, yet he shall not find {it}; yea further; though a wise {man} thinketh to know {it}, yet shall he not be able to find {it}.