King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:5
“Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 8
3
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4
Where the word of a king [is, there is] power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.
7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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