Ecclesiastes 8:1 meaning and explanation
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
Ecclesiastes 8:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, the wisdom voice of Ecclesiastes, addressing his hearers as he weighs what wisdom can and cannot do in a world he has found baffling. His questions are rhetorical: no one matches the wise person, and no one fully knows the meaning, the inner sense of a matter.
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