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1Who is like a wise man?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
And the sternness of his face is changed.
2I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God.[#Ex. 22:11; 2 Sam. 21:7; 1 Chr. 29:24; Ezek. 17:18; (Rom. 13:5)]
3Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”[#Eccl. 10:4]
4Where the word of a king is, there is power;
And who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
5He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;
And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,
6Because for every matter there is a time and judgment,[#Eccl. 3:1, 17]
Though the misery of man increases greatly.
7For he does not know what will happen;[#Prov. 24:22; Eccl. 6:12]
So who can tell him when it will occur?
8No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,[#Ps. 49:6, 7; Job 14:5]
And no one has power in the day of death.
There is no release from that war,
And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.
10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.[#Eccl. 2:16; 9:5]
11Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.[#Ps. 10:6; 50:21; Is. 26:10]
12Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.[#Is. 65:20; (Rom. 2:5–7); #(Deut. 4:40; Ps. 37:11, 18, 19; Prov. 1:32, 33; Is. 3:10; Matt. 25:34, 41)]
13But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
14There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.[#Ps. 73:14; #Eccl. 2:14; 7:15; 9:1–3]
15So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.[#Eccl. 2:24]
16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,
17then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.[#Job 5:9; Ps. 73:16; Eccl. 3:11; Rom. 11:33]