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Who is like a wise man?
Who can explain things
Man’s wisdom lights his face up,
it transfigures even a rough countenance.
2 Obey the king, for you swore him loyalty before God. 3 Rebel not rashly against him, never thwart him, for he does as he pleases; 4 the king’s word is supreme, and none dare ask him what he means. 7 No one knows what a king may do, and none can tell when he will do it. 5 He who obeys the royal command will never come to harm. Still, the wise heart knows there is a time of judgment coming, 6 even though to-day men may be crushed under the king in misery; for all there is an hour of judgment. 8 No man can hold the winds in check or control the day of death; in war there is no furlough, and wrong is no shield for wrongdoers. 9 All this I saw, as thoughtfully I pondered what goes on within this world whenever men have power over their fellows, power to injure them. 10 Then I saw bad men being borne to burial, carried to their rest, while the pious had to leave the sanctuary and were forgotten in the city (which also is vanity!). 11 [[Because sentence on n a crime is not executed at once, the mind of man is prone to evil practices; 12 but although a sinner may sin repeatedly and thrive, I know it is the reverent who are safe, as they revere God, 13 while the bad man fares ill--he cannot thrive, for lives that lack all reverence for God pass like a shadow.]] 14 Here again is a vanity that goes on in the world: good men fare as though they were wicked, and wicked men fare as though they were good. This, I repeat, is vanity. 15 So I praise pleasure: the best thing under the sun for man is to eat and drink and enjoy himself, and to keep this up as he goes toiling through the life God gives him in this world. 16 When I gave my mind to the study of wisdom, to study all 17 the busy life of the world, I found that man is unable to grasp the truth of all that God is doing in this world; he may labour in his efforts to attain it, in a sleepless quest for it by day and night, but he will never find it out; a wise man may think he is coming on the secret, but even he will never find it out.