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Ecclésiaste 8	Ecclesiastes 8
Ecclésiaste 8:1 Qui est comme le sage, et qui connaît l`explication des choses? La sagesse d`un homme fait briller son visage, et la sévérité de sa face est changée.	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Ecclésiaste 8:2 Je te dis: Observe les ordres du roi, et cela à cause du serment fait à Dieu.	Ecclesiastes 8:2 I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Ecclésiaste 8:3 Ne te hâte pas de t`éloigner de lui, et ne persiste pas dans une chose mauvaise: car il peut faire tout ce qui lui plaît,	Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Ecclésiaste 8:4 parce que la parole du roi est puissante; et qui lui dira: Que fais-tu?	Ecclesiastes 8:4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Ecclésiaste 8:5 Celui qui observe le commandement ne connaît point de chose mauvaise, et le coeur du sage connaît le temps et le jugement.	Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Ecclésiaste 8:6 Car il y a pour toute chose un temps et un jugement, quand le malheur accable l`homme.	Ecclesiastes 8:6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
Ecclésiaste 8:7 Mais il ne sait point ce qui arrivera, et qui lui dira comment cela arrivera?	Ecclesiastes 8:7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
Ecclésiaste 8:8 L`homme n`est pas maître de son souffle pour pouvoir le retenir, et il n`a aucune puissance sur le jour de la mort; il n`y a point de délivrance dans ce combat, et la méchanceté ne saurait sauver les méchants.	Ecclesiastes 8:8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Ecclésiaste 8:9 J`ai vu tout cela, et j`ai appliqué mon coeur à tout ce qui se fait sous le soleil. Il y a un temps où l`homme domine sur l`homme pour le rendre malheureux.	Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Ecclésiaste 8:10 Alors j`ai vu des méchants recevoir la sépulture et entrer dans leur repos, et ceux qui avaient agi avec droiture s`en aller loin du lieu saint et être oubliés dans la ville. C`est encore là une vanité.	Ecclesiastes 8:10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclésiaste 8:11 Parce qu`une sentence contre les mauvaises actions ne s`exécute pas promptement, le coeur des fils de l`homme se remplit en eux du désir de faire le mal.	Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
Ecclésiaste 8:12 Cependant, quoique le pécheur fasse cent fois le mal et qu`il y persévère longtemps, je sais aussi que le bonheur est pour ceux qui craignent Dieu, parce qu`ils ont de la crainte devant lui.	Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Ecclésiaste 8:13 Mais le bonheur n`est pas pour le méchant, et il ne prolongera point ses jours, pas plus que l`ombre, parce qu`il n`a pas de la crainte devant Dieu.	Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Ecclésiaste 8:14 Il est une vanité qui a lieu sur la terre: c`est qu`il y a des justes auxquels il arrive selon l`oeuvre des méchants, et des méchants auxquels il arrive selon l`oeuvre des justes. Je dis que c`est encore là une vanité.	Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Ecclésiaste 8:15 J`ai donc loué la joie, parce qu`il n`y a de bonheur pour l`homme sous le soleil qu`à manger et à boire et à se réjouir; c`est là ce qui doit l`accompagner au milieu de son travail, pendant les jours de vie que Dieu lui donne sous le soleil.	Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Ecclésiaste 8:16 Lorsque j`ai appliqué mon coeur à connaître la sagesse et à considérer les choses qui se passent sur la terre, -car les yeux de l`homme ne goûtent le sommeil ni jour ni nuit,	Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
Ecclésiaste 8:17 j`ai vu toute l`oeuvre de Dieu, j`ai vu que l`homme ne peut pas trouver ce qui se fait sous le soleil; il a beau se fatiguer à chercher, il ne trouve pas; et même si le sage veut connaître, il ne peut pas trouver.	Ecclesiastes 8:17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.