Ecclesiastes 8:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Feel - literally, know. The meaning is, “He who obeys the commandment (i. e., the word of the king, Ecclesiastes 8:4), will not be an accomplice in any act of rebellion; and if he be a wise man he discerns (literally knows) that the king’s commandment or action is liable to correction, if it be wrong, in God’s time and by God’s judgment.” Compare Ecclesiastes 3:11, Ecclesiastes 3:17.

Ecclesiastes 8:5

5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.