Ecclesiastes 8:1; Ecclesiastes 8:5 (New Living Translation)

1 How wonderful to be wise, to be able to analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person's face, softening its hardness.

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5 Those who obey him will not be punished. Those who are wise will find a time and a way to do what is right.

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Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online)