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8 Who is like the wise person
and who knows the interpretation of a matter?
The wisdom of a person gives light to his face
and the strength of his face is changed.
2 As for me—listen to the mouth of a king, that is, on account of the oath of God. 3 Do not be horrified from his face—go! Do not stand in an evil matter, for everything that he pleases, he will do, 4 because the word of a king is authoritative, and who will say to him, “What are you doing?”
5 One who listens to a command will not know an evil matter,
and a wise heart will know a time and judgment,
6 because for every matter, there is a time and judgment,
because the misfortune of humanity is severe upon him,
7 because he is not knowing whatever that will be, for when it will be,
who will declare it to him?
8 No person is a ruler over the spirit to restrain the spirit,
nor is there authority over the day of death,
nor is there discharge in war,
nor will wickedness deliver its masters.
9 All this I saw, giving my heart to every deed that was done under the sun: a time that the person has dominion over another person to his harm.
10 And then, I saw wicked people buried, and they went out, and from a holy place they walked. And they will be forgotten in the city where thus they had done.
This also is vapor: 11 that a decree concerning the evil deed is not made quickly, therefore, the heart of the sons of humanity is full in them to do evil; 12 that a sinner is doing evil a hundred times and lengthening days for himself—yet also I know that it will be good for those who fear God, who fear from before his face. 13 But it will not be good for the wicked, nor will he lengthen his days like the shadow, because he is not fearing before the face of God. 14 There is vapor that is done on the earth: that there are righteous people who it befalls to them like the deeds of the wicked people, and there are wicked people who it befalls to them like the deeds of the righteous people. I say that also this is vapor.
15 And I praised, I, joy, that there is nothing good for humanity under the sun except to eat and to drink and to rejoice, and it will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life that God has given to him under the sun. 16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on the earth—for even in the day and in the night sleep in his eyes he is not seeing— 17 and I saw every deed of God, that humanity is not able to find the deed that is done under the sun, in that to which humanity will toil to seek, yet he will not find it. Also, even if the wise person says to know, he is not able to find it.