³⁰Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Chapter 8

The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

²I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.

³Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:

⁴And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

⁵He that keepeth the commandment, shall find no evil. The heart of a wiser man understandeth time and answer.

⁶There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:

⁷Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

⁸It is not in man’s power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

⁹All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

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