Ecclesiastes 8
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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.

as the

Ecclesiastes 2:13,14 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness…

1 Corinthians 2:13-16 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, …

who knoweth

Genesis 40:8 And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter …

Genesis 41:15,16,38,39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is …

Job 33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, …

Proverbs 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the …

Daniel 2:28-30,47 But there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known …

Daniel 4:18,19 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now you, O Belteshazzar, …

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private …

a man's

Exodus 34:29,30 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the …

Proverbs 4:8,9 Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, …

Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool …

Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong; yes, a man of knowledge increases strength.

Matthew 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, …

Acts 6:15 And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw …

and the

Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person …

Acts 4:13,29 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that …

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …

boldness

2 Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that …

I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

keepeth

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter …

Exodus 1:17,20,21 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded …

Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly …

Luke 20:25 And he said to them, Render therefore to Caesar the things which …

Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right …

Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to …

Romans 13:5-7 Why you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience …

1 Peter 3:13,14 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good…

feel

Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: …

Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding …

Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool …

Luke 12:56,57 You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; …

1 Corinthians 2:14,15 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: …

Philippians 1:9,10 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge …

Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease …

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age…

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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.
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.
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

a sinner

Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall …

Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just …

1 Kings 2:5-9 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and …

1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness …

1 Kings 22:34,35 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of …

Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that …

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known…

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to …

surely

Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this …

Psalm 37:11,18,19 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves …

Psalm 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …

Psalm 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

Proverbs 1:32,33 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity …

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …

Isaiah 65:13,14,20-24 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, …

Matthew 25:34,41-46 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed …

Luke 1:50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

fear before

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can …

1 Chronicles 16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that …

Psalm 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

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.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
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.
When I applied mine 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:)
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 labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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