Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 8:3-7 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

3. Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

4. And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

5. He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.

6. There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:

7. Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.