Ecclesiastes 8:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Who `is' as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

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  • Deut 28:50 : 50 a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
  • Acts 6:15 : 15 and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.
  • Prov 4:8-9 : 8 Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her. 9 She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
  • Exod 34:29-30 : 29 And it cometh to pass, when Moses is coming down from mount Sinai (and the two tables of the testimony `are' in the hand of Moses in his coming down from the mount), that Moses hath not known that the skin of his face hath shone in His speaking with him, 30 and Aaron seeth -- all the sons of Israel also -- Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.
  • Eccl 2:13-14 : 13 And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness. 14 The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
  • Dan 2:28-30 : 28 but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which `is' to be in the latter end of the days. `Thy dream and the visions of thy head on thy bed are these: 29 Thou, O king, thy thoughts on thy bed have come up `concerning' that which `is' to be after this, and the Revealer of secrets hath caused thee to know that which `is' to be. 30 As to me -- not for `any' wisdom that is in me above any living hath this secret been revealed to me; but for the intent that the interpretation to the king they make known, and the thoughts of thy heart thou dost know.
  • Dan 2:47 : 47 The king hath answered Daniel and said, `Of a truth `it is' that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou hast been able to reveal this secret.'
  • Dan 4:18-19 : 18 `This dream I have seen, I king Nebuchadnezzar; and thou, O Belteshazzar, the interpretation tell, because that all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to cause me to know the interpretation, and thou `art' able, for the spirit of the holy gods `is' in thee. 19 `Then Daniel, whose name `is' Belteshazzar, hath been astonished about one hour, and his thoughts do trouble him; the king hath answered and said, O Belteshazzar, let not the dream and its interpretation trouble thee. Belteshazzar hath answered and said, My lord, the dream -- to those hating thee, and its interpretation -- to thine enemies!
  • Matt 17:2 : 2 and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,
  • Acts 4:13 : 13 And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --
  • Acts 4:29 : 29 `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,
  • Job 33:23 : 23 If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
  • Gen 40:8 : 8 And they say unto him, `A dream we have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it;' and Joseph saith unto them, `Are not interpretations with God? recount, I pray you, to me.'
  • Gen 41:15-16 : 15 And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I -- I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,' 16 and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, `Without me -- God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God `is'?' 39 and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.
  • Prov 24:5 : 5 Mighty `is' the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,
  • 1 Cor 2:13-16 : 13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing, 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned; 15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned; 16 for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.
  • Eph 6:19 : 19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,
  • 2 Pet 1:20 : 20 this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

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