Ecclesiastes - Lesson 9

Ecclesiastes 8:1 NIV

1 Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.

1 Corinthians 8:2 NIV

2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

Ecclesiastes 8:2 NIV

2 Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

Romans 13:1–2 NIV

1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

Eccl 8:2-7 message

Ecclesiastes 8:2–7 The Message

2 Do what your king commands; you gave a sacred oath of obedience. 3 Don’t worryingly second-guess your orders or try to back out when the task is unpleasant. You’re serving his pleasure, not yours. 4 The king has the last word. Who dares say to him, “What are you doing?” 5 Carrying out orders won’t hurt you a bit; the wise person obeys promptly and accurately. 6 Yes, there’s a right time and way for everything, even though, unfortunately, we miss it for the most part. 7 It’s true that no one knows what’s going to happen, or when. Who’s around to tell us?

Eccl 8:8 niv

Ecclesiastes 8:8 NIV

8 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 practice it.

Hebrews 9:27 NIV

27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Ecclesiastes 8:9 NIV

9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 NIV

10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 8:11–14 NIV

11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. 12 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. 13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. 14 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 NIV

15 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:16–17 NIV

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.

John 1:14 NIV

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Philippians 2:7–8 NIV

7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!