4. because the word of the king is his power and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5. Whosoever keeps the commandment shall experience no evil thing, and a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment.
6. Because for every will there is time and judgment, because the evil of man is great upon him,
7. for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him?
8. There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9. All this I have seen and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: the time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.
10. Then I also saw that the wicked who were buried came into remembrance more than those who had frequented the holy place, and these were forgotten in the city where they had worked uprightly. This also is vanity.
11. Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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