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Who is like the wise?
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person’s wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person’s wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.
Keep the King’s Command
Who is like the wise?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
and the hardness of his face is changed.
Who is like the wise?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
and the hardness of his face is changed.
Obey the King
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.
Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.
Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,
and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,
though a person may be weighed down by misery.
though a person may be weighed down by misery.
Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
who can tell someone else what is to come?
For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.
When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
Man Cannot Know God’s Ways
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth — people getting no sleep day or night —
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,
then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.