Ecclesiastes 8:1 Cross References - Darby

¹ Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man`s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.

⁸ And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [your dreams], I pray you.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it. ¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

³⁸ And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find [one] as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none [so] discreet and wise as thou.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai -- and the two tables of testimony were in Moses` hand, when he came down from the mountain -- that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone through his talking with him. ³⁰ And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;

²³ If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;

⁶ to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.

⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her. ⁹ She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.

²⁴ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

⁵ A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

¹³ And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness. ¹⁴ The wise man`s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

²⁸ but there is a God in the heavens, who revealeth secrets, and maketh known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be at the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these: ²⁹ -- as for thee, O king, thy thoughts arose upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass. ³⁰ And as for me, this secret is revealed to me, not by [any] wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation should be made known to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel and said, Of a truth it is that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, because thou wast able to reveal this secret.

¹⁸ This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and thou, Belteshazzar, tell the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation; but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. ¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, nor its interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and its interpretation to thine enemies!

² And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light;

¹³ But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.

²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,

¹⁵ And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as [the] face of an angel.

¹³ which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means]. ¹⁴ But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned; ¹⁵ but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. ¹⁶ For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

¹⁹ and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in [the] opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,

¹⁷ But the Lord stood with [me], and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all [those of] the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion`s mouth.

²⁰ knowing this first, that [the scope of] no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,