1Who 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.[ † ]Proverbs 4:8-9Acts 6:15Deuteronomy 28:50 2I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.[ † ]Exodus 22:112 Samuel 21:71 Chronicles 29:24Ezekiel 17:18Romans 13:5 3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.[ † ]Ecclesiastes 10:4 4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?[ † ]1 Samuel 13:11-13Job 34:18 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.[ † ]Ecclesiastes 3:1-17 7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?[ † ]Proverbs 24:22Ecclesiastes 6:12 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.[ † ]Psalms 49:6-7Job 14:5Deuteronomy 20:5-8
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.[ † ]Ecclesiastes 2:16Ecclesiastes 9:5 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.[ † ]Psalms 10:6Psalms 50:21Isaiah 26:10 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:[ † ]Isaiah 65:20Romans 2:5-7Deuteronomy 4:40Psalms 37:11-18, 19Proverbs 1:32-33Isaiah 3:10Matthew 25:34-41 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.
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.[ † ]Psalms 73:14Ecclesiastes 2:14Ecclesiastes 7:15Ecclesiastes 9:1-3 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.[ † ]Ecclesiastes 2:24
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 farther; though a wise man think to know it , yet shall he not be able to find it .[ † ]Job 5:9Psalms 73:16Ecclesiastes 3:11Romans 11:33