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Ecclesiastes 8:3-16

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3Do not quickly disobey the king. And do not join those who want to rebel against him, because the king will do what he wants to do.
4We need to obey what the king says more than we need to obey what anyone else says; no one can say to the king, “◄Why are you doing that?/You should not be doing that.► RHQ”
5If you obey what the king commands, he will not harm you. So be wise, and know the correct/right time to do things and the right way to do them.
6Although people experience many troubles/difficulties, there is a right/correct time to do things, and there is a right/correct way to do them.
7No one knows what will happen in the future, so there is no one RHQ who can tell us what is going to happen.
8We cannot control the wind, and we cannot control when we will die. Soldiers are not permitted to go home during a battle, and evil people will not be saved by doing what is evil.
9I thought about all those things, and I thought about all HYP the other things that happen on this earth. I saw that sometimes people cause those whom they control to suffer.
10I also saw that sometimes after evil people die, they are highly honored at their funerals by the people in the cities where they had done evil deeds. It seemed to be difficult to understand why that happens.
11If evil people are not immediately punished, it causes other people SYN to also want to do evil things.
12But even if sinful people commit a hundred crimes, and even if they live for a long time, I know that things will go better for those who greatly respect and revere God.
13I also know that things will not go well go for those who are evil, because they do not revere God. Shadows do not last a long time. Similarly SIM, evil people will not live a long time.
14Another thing that sometimes happens on this earth is that bad things happen to righteous people, and good things happen to evil people. It is difficult to understand why that happens.
15So I decided that I would recommend that people be happy while they are alive, because the best thing that people can do here on this earth is to eat and drink and be happy. Enjoying doing those things will help people while they do their work, all the time that God has given to them to remain alive here on the earth.
16I thought about being wise and about people who work very hard, working day and night and not taking time to sleep.

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