2. I say, Keep the king's commandment, and that on account of the oath of God
3. Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him,
4. because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knoweth time and manner.
6. For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;
7. for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
8. There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9. All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.
10. And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.