Verse

Ecclesiastes 8:5

A church father on this verse
And you find in another passage, "For he that keeps the commandment does not know the wicked word" when it is altogether clear that knowledge of wickedness is not culpable, but association with it is.
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Interrogation of Job and David 2.7.27
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5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

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3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Ecclesiastes 8:5

6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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