Ecclesiastes Chapter 8

Respect for rulers

8:1 Who is like the wise man? and who knows the what things mean? a man’s wisdom lights up his face, and the boldness of his face is transformed.
8:2 I [say] obey the king’s command, and because of Elohim’sאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here oath to him.
8:3 Don’t be in a hurry to leave his presence: don’t tolerate an evilרָע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here thing; because he can do whatever he pleases.
8:4 Since the word of a king is law: and who would say to him, What are you doing?
8:5 Whoever obeys the commandment won’t know an evilרַע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here word: and a wise mind will know time and justiceוּמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: ûmišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here.
8:6 Because to everything has a time and justiceמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, So man’sהָאָדָם‎
Transliteration: hā’āḏām man, human being
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Singular Absolute – men, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here evilרָעַת‎
Transliteration: rāʿaṯ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here is substantial on him.
8:7 Because he doesn’t know what will happen: because who will tell him when it happens?
8:8 No manאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here has power over the spiritבָּרוּחַ
Transliteration: bārûaḥ – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here to restrain the spiritהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here; or is there power over the day of death: nor discharge in war; and wickedness can’t save the wrongdoer.
8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every deed that is done under the sun:[There is] a time when one manהָאִישׁ‎
Transliteration: hā’îš, a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. For more info click here rules over another to his own hurtלְרַע‎
Transliteration: lᵊraʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here.
8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holyקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this too is pointless.
8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, So the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The godly and the wicked contrasted

8:12 Though a sinner do evil one hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, which fear before him:
8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here.
8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here gives him under the sun.

Unsearchability of Elohim’s work

8:16 When 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 or night sees sleep with his eyes:)
8:17 Then I saw all the work of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, that a man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.