Who is as
the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation
of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to
shine, and the boldness of his face shall be
changed.
02 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment,
and that in regard of the oath of God.
03 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not
in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever
pleaseth him.
04 Where the word of a king is, there is power:
and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
05 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no
evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth
both time and judgment.
06 Because to every purpose there is time and
judgment, therefore the misery of man is great
upon him.
07 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for
who can tell him when it shall be?
08 There is no man that hath power over the
spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he
power in the day of death: and there is no
discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness
deliver those that are given to it.
09 All this have I seen, and applied my heart
unto every work that is done under the sun: there
is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to
his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come
and gone from the place of the holy, and they
were forgotten in the city where they had so
done: this is also vanity.
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11 Because 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.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and
his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it
shall be well with them that fear God, which fear
before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked,
neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a
shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the
earth; that there be just men, unto whom it
happeneth according to the work of the wicked;
again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth
according to the work of the righteous: I said
that this also is vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no
better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to
drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with
him of his labour the days of his life, which God
giveth him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and
to see the business that is done upon the earth:
(for also there is that neither day nor night
seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man
cannot find out the work that is done under the
sun: because though a man labour to seek it out,
yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a
wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be
able to find it.
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