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Ecclesiastes 8:12

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

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surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved,

Be pained before Him, all the earth:

And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great.

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the honour of holiness, Be afraid of His presence, all the earth.

And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous.

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.

I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

`It is' good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.

They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

And His kindness `is' to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

thou dost not eat it, in order that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Observe, and thou hast obeyed all these words which I am commanding thee, in order that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee -- to the age, when thou dost that which `is' good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- all the days.'

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,




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