Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face ¹ to shine, and ² the boldness of his face shall be changed.

I counsel thee to keep the king's ¹ commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

¹ Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him.

He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both ¹ time and judgment.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the ¹ misery of man is great upon him.

There is no man that hath power ¹ 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.

All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own ¹ hurt.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and ¹ gone from the ² place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Because sentence against an evil work is not ¹ executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, to whom it happeneth according to the ¹ work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than ¹ 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.