# Ecclesiastes 8

## Verse Summary

NIV2011 verse same as 1984 | 7 | 41.18%
NIV2011 verse same as tNIV | 6 | 35.29%
NIV2011 rejected tNIV, reverted to NIV1984 |  | %
NIV2011 verse verse is new | 4 | 23.53%

## Word Summary

NIV2011 words same as 1984 | 291 | 84.59%
NIV2011 changed words | 53 | 15.41%
NIV2011 removed words | 51 |
NIV2011 added words | 55 |

## Changes

| Result | NIV1984 | tNIV(2005) | NIV2011
8:1 | NIV2011 | Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man’s face and changes its hard appearance. | Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man’s the face and changes its hard appearance. | Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.
8:6 | tNIV | For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. | For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s person may be weighed down by misery weighs heavily upon him. | For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s person may be weighed down by misery weighs heavily upon him.
8:7 | NIV2011 | Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? | Since no man one knows the future, who can tell him say what is to come? | Since no man one knows the future, who can tell him someone else what is to come?
8:8 | tNIV | No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. | No man As no one has power over the wind to contain it; , so no one has power over the day time of his their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. | No man As no one has power over the wind to contain it; , so no one has power over the day time of his their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
8:11 | tNIV | When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong. | When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the people’s hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong. | When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the people’s hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.
8:12 | tNIV | Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God. | Although a wicked man person who commits a hundred crimes and still lives may live a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men those who fear God, who are reverent before God him. | Although a wicked man person who commits a hundred crimes and still lives may live a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men those who fear God, who are reverent before God him.
8:14 | tNIV | There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. | There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. | There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
8:15 | NIV2011 | So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun. | So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing is better for a man people under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him them in his work their toil all the days of the life God has given him them under the sun. | So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing is better for a man person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him them in his work their toil all the days of the life God has given him them under the sun.
8:16 | tNIV | When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man’s labor on earth—his eyes not seeing sleep day or night— | When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man’s the labor that is done on earth— his eyes not seeing people getting no sleep day or night— | When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man’s the labor that is done on earth— his eyes not seeing people getting no sleep day or night—
8:17 | NIV2011 | then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it. | then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts People toil to search it out, man cannot but no one can discover its meaning. Even if a the wise man claims he knows claim they know, he they cannot really comprehend it. | then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his their efforts to search it out, man cannot no one can discover its meaning. Even if a the wise man claims he knows claim they know, he they cannot really comprehend it.