5. He who guards the command knows no evil matter. And the heart of the wise discerns both time and right-ruling,
6. Because for every matter there is a time and right-ruling, though the trouble of man is heavy upon him.
7. For he does not know what shall be; so who declares to him when it shall be?
8. No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it.
9. All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.