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Eclesiastes 8 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
17 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1There's nothing better than being wise,Knowing how to interpret the meaning of life.Wisdom puts light in the eyes,And gives gentleness to words and manners.
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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.
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2Do what your king commands; you gave a sacred oath of obedience.
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2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
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3Don't worryingly second-guess your orders or try to back out when the task is unpleasant. You're serving his pleasure, not yours.
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3Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
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4The king has the last word. Who dares say to him, "What are you doing?"
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4for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
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5Carrying out orders won't hurt you a bit; the wise person obeys promptly and accurately.
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5Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
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6Yes, there's a right time and way for everything, even though, unfortunately, we miss it for the most part.
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6For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
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7It's true that no one knows what's going to happen, or when. Who's around to tell us?
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7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
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8No one can control the wind or lock it in a box.No one has any say-so regarding the day of death.No one can stop a battle in its tracks.No one who does evil can be saved by evil.
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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 practice it.
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9All this I observed as I tried my best to understand all that's going on in this world. As long as men and women have the power to hurt each other, this is the way it is.
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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.
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10One time I saw wicked men given a solemn burial in holy ground. When the people returned to the city, they delivered flowery eulogies—and in the very place where wicked acts were done by those very men! More smoke. Indeed.
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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.
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11Because the sentence against evil deeds is so long in coming, people in general think they can get by with murder.
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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.
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12Even though a person sins and gets by with it hundreds of times throughout a long life, I'm still convinced that the good life is reserved for the person who fears God, who lives reverently in his presence,
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12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
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13and that the evil person will not experience a "good" life. No matter how many days he lives, they'll all be as flat and colorless as a shadow—because he doesn't fear God.
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13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.
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14Here's something that happens all the time and makes no sense at all: Good people get what's coming to the wicked, and bad people get what's coming to the good. I tell you, this makes no sense. It's smoke.
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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.
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15So, I'm all for just going ahead and having a good time—the best possible. The only earthly good men and women can look forward to is to eat and drink well and have a good time—compensation for the struggle for survival these few years God gives us on earth.
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15Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
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16When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking,
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16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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17you'll still never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you're not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart you are, you won't get to the bottom of it.
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17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors 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.