81Who
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.+2I
counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and
that
in regard of the oath of God.+3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.+4Where the word of a king
is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?+5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.+6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man
is great upon him.+7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?+8There 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.+9All 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.+
10And 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.+11Because 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.+12Though 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:+13But 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.+
God’s Ways Are Mysterious
14There 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.+15Then 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.+16When 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:)+17Then 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 further; though a wise
man think to know
it, yet shall he not be able to find
it.+
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